Surgical trials and trial registers: A cross-sectional study of randomized controlled trials published in journals requiring trial registration in the author instructions

Trials

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hardt, Julia L S ^a   Metzendorf, Maria Inti ^a   Meerpohl, Joerg J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Randomized controlled trials; Results reporting; Surgery journals; Trial registration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA BASE; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FUNDING; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LEARNING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDLINE; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTER; REGISTRATION; RESPONSIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84888343706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-14-407     Document Type: Article

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