Reporting characteristics of non-primary publications of results of randomized trials: A cross-sectional review

Trials

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hopewell, Sally ^a,b,c   Collins, Gary S ^a   Hirst, Allison ^a   Kirtley, Shona ^a   Tajar, Abdelouahid ^a   Gerry, Stephen ^a   Altman, Douglas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Non primary publication; Randomized controlled trial; Secondary outcomes; Subgroup analyses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEDLINE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BIBLIOMETRICS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84880961432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-14-240     Document Type: Article

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