Endorsement of ICMJE's clinical trial registration policy: A survey among journal editors

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 349-355

  Hooft, L ^a   Korevaar, D A ^b   Molenaar, N ^a   Bossuyt, P M M ^b   Scholten, R J P M ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Outcome reporting bias; Publication bias; Trial registration

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; PEER REVIEW; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTER; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EDITORIAL POLICIES; HUMANS; PEER REVIEW; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84906908165     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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