From financial to scientific fraud: Methods to detect discrepancies in the medical literature;Vom Finanz- zum Wissenschaftsbetrug: Methode, den Irrungen in der medizinischen Literatur beizukommen

Anaesthesist

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 537-542

  Schupfer G ^a   Hein, J ^b   Casutt, M ^a   Steiner, L ^c   Konrad, C ^a  

^a Institut fur Anasthesie Kantonsspital Luzern   (Switzerland)

^b Institut fur Anasthesie   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abstracts; Distribution; Fraud, scientific; Medicine; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FINANCE; FRAUD; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ANIMALS; BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SWINE;

EID: 84862897098     PISSN: 00032417     EISSN: 1432055X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00101-012-2028-y     Document Type: Article

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