Quality of reporting in clinical trials of preharvest food safety interventions and associations with treatment effect

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 989-999

  Sargeant, Jan M ^a,b   Saint Onge, Jacqueline ^a   Valcour, James ^a,b   Thompson, Adam ^a   Elgie, Robyn ^a   Snedeker, Kate ^a,b   Marcynuk, Pasha ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FOOD SAFETY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIBLIOMETRICS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; LINEAR MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 70350097938     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2009.0321     Document Type: Article

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