Registration of trials in children: Update of current international initiatives

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 717-719

  Pandolfini, Chiara ^a   Bonati, Maurizio ^a   Sammons, Helen M ^b  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CHILD SAFETY; CLINICAL TRIAL; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; KIDNEY TUBULE DISORDER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CHILD; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; REGISTRIES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 69249125837     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2008.148155     Document Type: Review

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