Assessment of the quality of reporting in abstracts of randomized controlled trials published in five leading chinese medical journals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Yaolong ^a,b   Li, Jing ^a   Ai, Changlin ^a   Duan, Yurong ^a   Wang, Ling ^a   Zhang, Mingming ^a   Hopewell, Sally ^c  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UK COCHRANE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT REPORT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARD; CHINA; DOCUMENTATION; LANGUAGE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; CHINA; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; LANGUAGE; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 77957805368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011926     Document Type: Article

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