Getting our house in order: An audit of the registration and publication of clinical trials supported by the national institute for health research Oxford biomedical research centre and the musculoskeletal biomedical research unit

BMJ Open

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Tompson, A C ^a   Petit Zeman, S ^b   Goldacre, B ^a   Heneghan, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NIHR OXFORD BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; REGISTER; REGISTRATION; CLINICAL AUDIT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLISHING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; CLINICAL AUDIT; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATION BIAS; PUBLICATIONS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84960330018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009285     Document Type: Article

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