Figures in clinical trial reports: Current practice & scope for improvement

Trials

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Pocock, Stuart J ^a   Travison, Thomas G ^b   Wruck, Lisa M ^b,c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^c RHO INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; ALBUMIN; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ENOXAPARIN; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GLIBENCLAMIDE; GLIMEPIRIDE; HEPARIN; HIRULOG; ISONIAZID; METFORMIN; PIOGLITAZONE; PLACEBO; ROSIGLITAZONE; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; TESTOSTERONE; TRASTUZUMAB; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MONOTHERAPY; NERVE STIMULATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STROKE; SURVIVAL TIME; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38949101930     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-8-36     Document Type: Article

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