Quality of reporting in infertility journals

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 236-241

  Glujovsky, Demian ^a,b   Boggino, Carolina ^b   Riestra, Barbara ^b   Coscia, Andrea ^b   Sueldo, Carlos E ^b,c   Ciapponi, Agustín ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND HEALTH POLICY   (Argentina)

^b Centro de Estudios en Ginecologia y Reproduccion Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertility journals; Randomized controlled trials; Reporting guidelines; Reporting quality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCTION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; GYNECOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDLINE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; WRITING;

EDITORIAL POLICIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; GYNECOLOGY; INFERTILITY; INTERNATIONALITY; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBMED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; WRITING;

EID: 84924351676     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.10.024     Document Type: Article

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