Improvement in the quality of randomized controlled trials among general anesthesiology journals 2000 to 2006: A 6-year follow-up

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1916-1921

  Greenfield, Mary Lou V H ^a   Mhyre, Jill M ^a   Mashour, George A ^a   Blum, James M ^a   Yen, Eugene C ^a   Rosenberg, Andrew L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TREND STUDY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 66349110841     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31819fe6d7     Document Type: Article

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