Quality assessment of randomized controlled trials involving liver surgery

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 55, Issue 86-87, 2008, Pages 1678-1680

  Kaido, Toshimi ^a   Uemoto, Shinji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatectomy; Intention to treat analysis; Liver surgery; Randomized controlled trail; Sample size

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; CALCULATION; CHINA; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FOLLOW UP; FRANCE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; JAPAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; MEDLINE; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

HUMANS; LIVER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 57049138852     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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