The quality of randomized controlled trials in major anesthesiology journals

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1759-1764

  Greenfield, Mary Lou V H ^a   Rosenberg, Andrew L ^a,b   O'Reilly, Michael ^a   Shanks, Amy M ^a   Sliwinski, Michelle J ^a   Nauss, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; PERIODICALS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 19044373565     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000150612.71007.A3     Document Type: Article

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