Chinese authors do need CONSORT: Reporting quality assessment for five leading Chinese medical journals

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 727-731

  Xu, Lin ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Zhang, Mingming ^a   Ai, Changlin ^a   Wang, Ling ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CONSORT; Methodology; Randomized controlled trial; Reporting quality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; CHINA; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; STANDARD;

AUTHORSHIP; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHINA; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 49749152059     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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