Fraud in a population-based study of headache: prevention, detection and correction

Journal of Headache and Pain

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-5

  Ahmed, Bilal ^a   Ahmad, Ali ^a   Herekar, Akbar A ^a   Uqaili, Umer L ^a   Effendi, Jahanzeb ^a   Alvi, S Zia ^a   Herekar, Arif D ^a   Steiner, Timothy J ^b,c  

^a Headache Research Foundation of Pakistan   (Pakistan)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Fraud; Global Campaign against Headache; Headache; Pakistan; Research misconduct

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRAUD; HEADACHE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84937512281     PISSN: 11292369     EISSN: 11292377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1129-2377-15-37     Document Type: Article

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