Erratum: Are sample sizes clear and justified in RCTs published in dental journals? (PLoS ONE (2014) 9:1 (e85949) DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0085949);Are sample sizes clear and justified in RCTs published in dental journals?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Koletsi, Despina ^a   Fleming, Padhraig S ^b   Seehra, Jadbinder ^c   Bagos, Pantelis G ^d   Pandis, Nikolaos ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTHOR; DENTISTRY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE; STUDY DESIGN;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DENTISTRY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PUBLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84898634499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093238     Document Type: Erratum

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