The devil is in the details: Incomplete reporting in preclinical animal research

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Avey, Marc T ^a,b   Moher, David ^a,b   Sullivan, Katrina J ^a   Fergusson, Dean ^a   Griffin, Gilly ^a   Grimshaw, Jeremy M ^a,b   Hutton, Brian ^a,b   Lalu, Manoj M ^a   Macleod, Malcolm ^c   Marshall, John ^d   Mei, Shirley H J ^a   Rudnicki, Michael ^a   Stewart, Duncan J ^a,b   Turgeon, Alexis F ^e,f   McIntyre, Lauralyn ^a,b  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ARTICLE; INCOMPLETE REPORTING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRECLINICAL STUDY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CELL LINE; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); RESEARCH REPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84995554768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0166733     Document Type: Article

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