Do We Need to Improve Oral Health Research?

Statistical and Methodological Aspects of Oral Health Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-11

  Declerck, Dominique ^a   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^b,c,d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF IMAGING AND PATHOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aim of oral health (OH) research in accomplishing level of oral health; Assessment of research quality; Necessary steps for performing high quality (OH) research; Oral health research; Oral health research and its uniqueness; Oral health research aspects; Science Citation Index (SCI) and Institute of Scientific Information (ISI); Set of guidelines formulated in CONSORT statement; Variability in quality of medical and OH research

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956330932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470744116.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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