Do journals publishing in the field of urology endorse reporting guidelines? A survey of author instructions

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 54-59

  Kunath, Frank ^a   Grobe, Henrik R ^a,b   Rücker, Gerta ^c   Engehausen, Dirk ^d   Antes, Gerd ^a   Wullich, Bernd ^d   Meerpohl, Jörg J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Department of General and Visceral Surgery ^*  (Germany)

^c Institute of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Editorial policies; Guideline adherence; Medical standards; Urology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; EDITOR; INFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; REPORTING GUIDELINE; UROLOGY;

AUTHORSHIP; AWARENESS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL POLICIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; UROLOGY;

EID: 84856422763     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332742     Document Type: Article

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