Language of publication has a small influence on the quality of reports of controlled trials of physiotherapy interventions

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 78-84

  Shiwa, Sílvia Regina ^a   Moseley, Anne M ^b,c   Maher, Christopher G ^b,c   Pena Costa, Leonardo Oliveira ^a,b  

^a MASTERS AND DOCTORAL PROGRAMS IN PHYSICAL THERAPY   (Brazil)

^b GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Editorial policies; Language; Language bias; Methodological quality; Physiotherapy; Risk of bias

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84870023785     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.08.004     Document Type: Article

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