Previously unidentified duplicate registrations of clinical trials: An exploratory analysis of registry data worldwide

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  van Valkenhoef, Gert ^a,b   Loane, Russell F ^b   Zarin, Deborah A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Duplicate registrations; Trial registration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PUBLISHING; REFERENCE DATABASE; REGISTER; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STANDARDIZATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; STANDARDS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; PUBLICATION BIAS; REGISTRIES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84978229818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-016-0283-8     Document Type: Article

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