Involvement of low- and middle-income countries in randomized controlled trial publications in oncology

Globalization and Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wong, Janice C ^a,b   Fernandes, Kimberly A ^c   Amin, Shubarna ^d   Lwin, Zarnie ^e   Krzyzanowska, Monika K ^c,d,f  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Authorship; Cancer; Low and middle income countries; Publications; Randomized controlled trials; Sponsorship

Indexed keywords

CANCER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CAMBODIA; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RESEARCH; CHINA; COLORECTAL CANCER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HUMAN; INDIA; ITALY; JAPAN; LEADERSHIP; LIVER CANCER; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG CANCER; MIDDLE INCOME GROUP; PAKISTAN; PHILIPPINES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOCIAL STATUS; STOMACH CANCER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THAILAND; TUNISIA; UKRAINE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; BIBLIOMETRICS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIBLIOMETRICS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84925049727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12992-014-0083-7     Document Type: Article

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