Update on trial registration 11 years after the icmje policy was established

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 376, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 383-391

  Zarin, Deborah A ^a   Tse, Tony ^a   Williams, Rebecca J ^a   Rajakannan, Thiyagu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLICY; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; REGISTER; REGISTRATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FACTUAL DATABASE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EDITORIAL POLICIES; INTERNATIONALITY; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; REGISTRIES;

EID: 85010933945     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsr1601330     Document Type: Article

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