When medical news comes from press releases - A case study of pancreatic cancer and processed meat

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Taylor, Joseph W ^a   Long, Marie ^a   Ashley, Elizabeth ^a   Denning, Alex ^a   Gout, Beatrice ^a   Hansen, Kayleigh ^a   Huws, Thomas ^a   Jennings, Leifa ^a   Quinn, Sinead ^a   Sarkies, Patrick ^a   Wojtowicz, Alex ^a   Newton, Philip M ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER RESEARCH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MONITORING; PANCREAS CANCER; PROCESSED MEAT; PUBLICATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; RED MEAT; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS MEDIA; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RED MEAT; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84939220485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127848     Document Type: Article

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