All trials must be registered and the results published

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7890, 2013, Pages

  Chalmers, Iain ^a   Glasziou, Paul ^b   Godlee, Fiona ^c  

^a James Lind Initiative   (United Kingdom)

^b BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG INDUSTRY; EDITORIAL; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MELANOMA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REGISTRATION; RESPONSIBILITY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATION BIAS; PUBLISHING; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH REPORT; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC;

EID: 84872292655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f105     Document Type: Editorial

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