Reporting Quality and Information Consistency of Randomized, Controlled Trials Presented as Abstracts at the American Urological Association Annual Meetings

Journal of Urology

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 249-253

  Turpen, Ryan M ^a,b   Fesperman, Susan F ^a,b   Smith, William A ^a,b   Vieweg, Johannes ^a,b   Dahm, Philipp ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

abstracting and indexing as topic; publishing; randomized controlled trials as topic; research design; urology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; UROLOGY; VALIDITY;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; BIBLIOMETRICS; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNITED STATES; UROLOGY;

EID: 77953123315     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2010.03.045     Document Type: Article

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