Quality of reporting of trial abstracts needs to be improved: Using the CONSORT for abstracts to assess the four leading Chinese medical journals of traditional Chinese medicine

Trials

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wang, Ling ^a   Li, Yulin ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Zhang, Mingming ^a   Xu, Lin ^a   Yuan, Wenming ^a   Wang, Gang ^a   Hopewell, Sally ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UK COCHRANE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT REPORT; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PEER REVIEW; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; CHINA; DOCUMENTATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LANGUAGE; STANDARD;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; CHINA; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LANGUAGE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77955100524     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-11-75     Document Type: Article

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