Systematic reviewers in clinical neurology do not routinely search clinical trials registries

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Sinnett, Philip Marcus ^a   Carr, Branden ^a   Cook, Gregory ^a   Mucklerath, Halie ^a   Varney, Laura ^a   Weiher, Matt ^a   Yerokhin, Vadim ^a   Vassar, Matt ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CLINICAL TRIALS REGISTRY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); LITERATURE; PERSONNEL; REGISTER;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; NEUROLOGY; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84941966058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134596     Document Type: Article

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