"Hardly worth the effort"? Medical journals' policies and their editors' and publishers' views on trial registration and publication bias: Quantitative and qualitative study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 347, Issue 7926, 2013, Pages

  Wager, Elizabeth ^a   Williams, Peter ^b  

^a Sideview   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA BASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG INDUSTRY; EDITOR; EMPLOYER; FUNDING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PEER REVIEW; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REGISTRATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EDITORIAL POLICIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PUBLICATION BIAS; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84885075618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f5248     Document Type: Article

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