Reporting quality of randomized controlled trial abstracts: Survey of leading general dental journals

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 146, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 669-678.e1

  Hua, Fang ^a   Deng, Lijia ^a   Kau, Chung How ^a   Jiang, Han ^a   He, Hong ^a   Walsh, Tanya ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

abstracts; CONSORT; data reporting; dentistry; Randomized controlled trials; research design

Indexed keywords

DENTAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; ODDS RATIO; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DENTAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84940092668     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adaj.2015.03.020     Document Type: Article

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