Reporting quality for abstracts of randomized controlled trials in cancer nursing research

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 436-444

  Guo, Jia Wen ^a   Iribarren, Sarah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

CONSORT; Journal abstracts; Journal article; Oncology nursing; Randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; CANCER RESEARCH; FUNDING; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; DOCUMENTATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; NURSING; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDS;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84927796299     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000000112     Document Type: Article

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