Retracting, replacing, and correcting the literature for pervasive error in which the results change but the underlying science is still reliable

JAMA Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1170-1171

  Heckers, Stephan ^a   Bauchner, Howard ^b   Flanagin, Annette ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSULOTOMY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREATMENT RESPONSE; YALE BROWN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE; CAPSULA INTERNA; FEMALE; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PROCEDURES; RADIOSURGERY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL CAPSULE; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 84948962730     PISSN: 2168622X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.2278     Document Type: Editorial

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