Mislabeling controlled clinical trials (CCTs) as "randomized clinical trials (RCTs)" in dental specialty journals

Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 124-130

  Koletsi, Despina ^a   Pandis, Nikolaos ^b   Polychronopoulou, Argy ^a   Eliades, Theodore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dental journals; Epidemiology; Randomized clinical trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENTISTRY; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICS;

DENTISTRY; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLICATIONS; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84865798832     PISSN: 15323382     EISSN: 15323390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebdp.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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