From meeting presentation to peer-review publication - A UK review

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-56

  Weale, Andy R ^a   Edwards, A G ^a   Lear, P A ^a   Morgan, J D T ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Meeting abstracts; Publications; Surgery

Indexed keywords

GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; IRELAND; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDLINE; PEER REVIEW; PROCTOLOGY; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VASCULAR SURGERY;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CONGRESSES; GREAT BRITAIN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PUBLISHING; SURGERY;

EID: 30044442645     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1308/003588406X83069     Document Type: Review

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