Improvement in the quality of abstracts in major clinical journals since CONSORT extension for abstracts: A systematic review

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 245-250

  Mbuagbaw, Lawrence ^a,b,c,d   Thabane, Michael ^e   Vanniyasingam, Thuva ^a   Debono, Victoria Borg ^a   Kosa, Sarah ^a   Zhang, Shiyuan ^a   Ye, Chenglin ^a   Parpia, Sameer ^f   Dennis, Brittany B ^a   Thabane, Lehana ^a,b,g,h  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c YAOUNDÉ CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Cameroon)

^d SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g CENTRE FOR EVALUATION OF MEDICINES   (Canada)

^h HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abstracts of RCTs; CONSORT extension for abstracts; Quality of reporting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; BIBLIOMETRICS; DOCUMENTATION; PUBLICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; BIBLIOMETRICS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84901977878     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: 15592030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2014.05.012     Document Type: Article

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