Reporting quality of randomized controlled trial abstracts published in leading laser medicine journals: an assessment using the CONSORT for abstracts guidelines

Lasers in Medical Science

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1583-1590

  Jin, Lu ^a   Hua, Fang ^b   Cao, Qiang ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abstracts; CONSORT; Laser therapy; Lasers; Medical writing; Randomized controlled trials as topic

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT REPORT; ARTICLE; FUNDING; HUMAN; LASER; LIBRARY SCIENCE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTRATION; RESEARCH SUBJECT; DOCUMENTATION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PUBLICATION; STANDARDS;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; DATA ACCURACY; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84976514551     PISSN: 02688921     EISSN: 1435604X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10103-016-2018-4     Document Type: Article

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