Poor reporting of scientific leadership information in clinical trial registers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Sekeres, Melanie ^a,c,n   Gold, Jennifer L ^b   Chan, An Wen ^c   Lexchin, Joel ^c,d,k   Moher, David ^e,l   Van Laethem, Marleen L P ^f   Maskalyk, James ^c,g,k   Ferris, Lorraine ^h,m   Tabáck, Nathan ^i,m   Rochon, Paula A ^a,c,j  

^a Kunin Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit and Department of Food and Nutrition Services and Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care   (Canada)

^b Ontario Medical Association   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^f TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^g ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^h SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

ⁱ ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^j INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^k UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^l UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁿ HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; E-MAIL; FUNDING; LEADERSHIP; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; REGISTRATION; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIST; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PUBLISHING; REGISTER; SCIENCE; STANDARD;

CANADA; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LEADERSHIP; REGISTRIES; SCIENCE;

EID: 45449097687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001610     Document Type: Article

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