The quality of registration of clinical trials: Still a problem

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Viergever, Roderik F ^a,b   Karam, Ghassan ^c   Reis, Andreas ^c   Ghersi, Davina ^d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DATA EXTRACTION; DATA QUALITY; INFORMATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOM SAMPLE; REGISTER; REGISTRATION;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; RECORDS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84897566259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084727     Document Type: Article

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