Quality assessment of randomized controlled trials in the Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine

Korean Journal of Family Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 626-631

  Chung, Woobin ^a   Lee, Kyung Woo ^a   Hwang, In Hong ^a   Lee, Dong Hee ^a   Kim, Soo Young ^a  

^a Hallym University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Allocation concealment; Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine; Quality assessment; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053612090     PISSN: 20056443     EISSN: 20926715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4082/kjfm.2009.30.8.626     Document Type: Article

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