Assessment of adherence to the CONSORT statement for quality of reports on randomized controlled trial abstracts from four high-impact general medical journals

Trials

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ghimire, Saurav ^a   Kyung, Eunjung ^a   Kang, Wonku ^b   Kim, Eunyoung ^a  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^b Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CONSORT for abstracts; General medical journals; Quality of reports; Randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTRATION;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; BIBLIOMETRICS; CONSENSUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDITORIAL POLICIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84861854247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-77     Document Type: Article

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