Assessments of the quality of randomized controlled trials published in International Journal of Urology from 1994 to 2011

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1212-1219

  Cho, Hee Ju ^a   Chung, Jae Hoon ^b   Jo, Jung Ki ^b   Kang, Dong Hyuk ^b   Cho, Jeong Man ^a   Yoo, Tag Keun ^a   Lee, Seung Wook ^b  

^a Eulji University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Japan; Quality assessment; Randomized controlled trial; Urology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UROLOGY;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; JAPAN; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UROLOGY;

BIBLIOMETRICS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; JAPAN; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK; UROLOGY;

EID: 84897086695     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: 14422042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/iju.12150     Document Type: Article

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