Quality of reporting in randomized controlled trials conducted in China on the treatment of cancer pain

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 871-877

  Lu, Liming ^a   Zeng, Jingchun ^a   Chen, Ying ^b  

^a GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b University of Macau   (Macao)

Author keywords

cancer pain; quality assessment; randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER RESEARCH; CHINA; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVENTION STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESEARCH ETHICS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 79959811591     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/era.10.236     Document Type: Article

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