Registration rates, adequacy of registration, and a comparison of registered and published primary outcomes in randomized controlled trials published in surgery journals

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 193-196

  Killeen, Shane ^a   Sourallous, Panos ^a   Hunter, Iain A ^a   Hartley, John E ^a   Grady, Helen L O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adequacy of registration; Primary outcome; Randomized controlled trials; Registration rates; Surgical journals

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FUNDING; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTRATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

GENERAL SURGERY; PUBLICATION BIAS; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84891625435     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318299d00b     Document Type: Article

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