Quality of reporting according to the CONSORT, STROBE and Timmer instrument at the American Burn Association (ABA) annual meetings 2000 and 2008

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Knobloch, Karsten ^a   Yoon, Uzung ^b   Rennekampff, Hans O ^a   Vogt, Peter M ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK HOSPITAL QUEENS   (United States)

Author keywords

abstract; Burns; consort; evidence; reporting quality; strobe; timmer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BURN; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESEARCH; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BURNS; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH REPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 82255179831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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