A Critical Assessment of the Quality of Reporting of Randomized, Controlled Trials in the Urology Literature

Journal of Urology

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1090-1095

  Scales Jr , Charles D ^a   Norris, Regina D ^a   Keitz, Sheri A ^a   Peterson, Bercedis L ^a   Preminger, Glenn M ^a   Vieweg, Johannes ^a   Dahm, Philipp ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

randomized controlled trials; statistics; urology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSENSUS; HUMAN; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UROLOGY;

ADULT; CHILD; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; PERIODICALS; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; UROLOGY;

EID: 33846846715     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2006.10.027     Document Type: Article

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