Has the quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials in thoracic surgery improved?

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1476-1482

  Edwards, Janet P ^a   Dharampal, Navjit ^a   Chung, Wiley ^a   Brar, Mantaj S ^a   Ball, Chad G ^a   Seto, Jonathan ^b   Grondin, Sean C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Quality; RCTs; Review; Thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX SURGERY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PUBLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84965179974     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: 1873734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezv375     Document Type: Article

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