Clinical trials registries are under-utilized in the conduct of systematic reviews: A cross-sectional analysis

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Jones, Christopher W ^a   Keil, Lukas G ^b   Weaver, Mark A ^c   Platts Mills, Timothy F ^b  

^a Cooper Medical School of Rowan University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

ClinicalTrials.gov; Publication bias; Systematic review; Trials registry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; REGISTER; SAMPLE SIZE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITERATURE; PROCEDURES;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PUBLICATION BIAS; REGISTRIES; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84927920320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2046-4053-3-126     Document Type: Article

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