Do emergency medicine journals promote trial registration and adherence to reporting guidelines? A survey of "Instructions for Authors"

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Sims, Matthew T ^a   Henning, Nolan M ^a   Wayant, C Cole ^a   Vassar, Matt ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trial registry; ClinicalTrials.gov; CONSORT; EQUATOR network; ICMJE; PRISMA; Reporting guidelines; STARD; STROBE; WHO

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDITOR; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMAN; MOOSE; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; REGISTER; SCISEARCH; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICS; VALIDATION PROCESS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EDITORIAL POLICIES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84998980136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17577241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13049-016-0331-3     Document Type: Article

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