Methodological reporting of randomized trials in five leading chinese nursing journals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Shi, Chunhu ^a   Tian, Jinhui ^a   Ren, Dan ^a   Wei, Hongli ^a   Zhang, Lihuan ^a   Wang, Quan ^a   Yang, Kehu ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NURSING CARE; NURSING LITERATURE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDY DESIGN; HUMAN; NURSING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH; STANDARDS;

GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; NURSING; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH REPORT;

EID: 84913554538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113002     Document Type: Article

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