Randomized clinical trials presented at the world congress of endourology: How is the quality of reporting?

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2067-2073

  Autorino, Riccardo ^a,b   Borges, Claudio ^a   White, Michael A ^a   Altunrende, Fatih ^a   Perdoná, Sisto ^c   Haber, Georges Pascal ^a   De Sio, Marco ^b   Khanna, Rakesh ^a   Stein, Robert J ^a   Kaouk, Jihad H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENDOUROLOGY; EVALUATION; LIBRARY SCIENCE; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH REPORT; UROLOGY;

EID: 78650296834     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2009.0541     Document Type: Article

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