What is newsworthy? Longitudinal study of the reporting of medical research in two British newspapers

British Medical Journal

Volumn 325, Issue 7355, 2002, Pages 81-84

  Bartlett, Christopher ^a   Sterne, Jonathan ^a   Egger, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GENERAL PRACTICE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PUBLICATION; REPRODUCTION; RISK; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0037072101     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.325.7355.81     Document Type: Article

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