Prevention of false positive findings in observational studies: Registration will not work but replication might

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 95-96

  De Jonge, P ^a,b   Conradi, H J ^a,c   Thombs, B D ^d,e   Rosmalen, J G M ^a   Burger, H ^a,f   Ormel, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONNEL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTER; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; OBSERVATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATION BIAS; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 78651340365     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2010.125252     Document Type: Editorial

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