Searching for unpublished data for Cochrane reviews: Cross sectional study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7913, 2013, Pages

  Schroll, Jeppe Bennekou ^a   Bero, Lisa ^b   Gøtzsche, Peter C ^a  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG MANUFACTURE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINE; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEARCH ENGINE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878739419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f2231     Document Type: Article

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