Registering clinical trials: An essential role for WHO

Lancet

Volumn 363, Issue 9419, 2004, Pages 1413-1414

  Evans, Timothy ^a   Gülmezoglu, Metin ^a   Pang, Tikki ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; REGISTRATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 2342512284     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)16136-9     Document Type: Note

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