Randomized controlled trials and consolidated standards of reporting trials reporting quality: An evidence-based analysis of the American society of plastic surgeons, American Burn Association, and American society for surgery of the hand conference meetings

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Knobloch, Karsten ^a   Yoon, Uzung ^a   Vogt, Peter M ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURN; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HAND; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ORGANIZATION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARD; STATISTICS; SURGERY;

BURNS; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HAND; HUMANS; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; SURGERY, PLASTIC;

EID: 79958750271     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182131af9     Document Type: Letter

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