Reporting of numerical and statistical differences in abstracts: Improving but not optimal

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 203-206

  Dryver, Eric ^a   Hux, Janet E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abstracts; Format effect; Periodicals; Quantitative results; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PUBLICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; PERIODICALS; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0036280944     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2002.10114.x     Document Type: Article

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