Compliance with STARD checklist among studies of coronary CT angiography: Systematic review

Radiology

Volumn 271, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 74-86

  Walther, Stefan ^a   Schueler, Sabine ^a   Tackmann, Robert ^a   Schuetz, Georg M ^a   Schlattmann, Peter ^b   Dewey, Marc ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CHECKLIST; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHECKLIST; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH DESIGN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84896950848     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13121720     Document Type: Review

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