Quality of reporting of neonatal and infant trials in high-impact journals

Pediatrics

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  DeMauro, Sara B ^a   Giaccone, Annie ^a   Kirpalani, Haresh ^a   Schmidt, Barbara ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Infant; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEWBORN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDITY;

HUMANS; INFANT; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 80052356142     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-0377     Document Type: Review

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