Compliance with trial registration in five core journals of clinical geriatrics: A survey of original publications on randomised controlled trials from 2008 to 2012

Age and Ageing

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 872-876

  Mann, Eva ^a   Nguyen, Natalie ^b   Fleischer, Steffen ^b   Meyer, Gabriele ^b  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geriatrics; Older people; Patient outcome assessment; Publication bias; Randomised controlled trials; Registries

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GERIATRICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTER; REGISTRATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARDS;

GERIATRICS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATION BIAS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84911384863     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afu086     Document Type: Article

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