Can We Depend on Investigators to Identify and Register Randomized Controlled Trials?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Scherer, Roberta W ^a   Sieving, Pamela C ^b   Ervin, Ann Margret ^a   Dickersin, Kay ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT REPORT; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REFERENCE DATABASE; REGISTRATION; STUDY DESIGN;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; AUTHORSHIP; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 84866277607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044183     Document Type: Article

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