Widening the search for suspect data – is the flood of retractions about to become a tsunami?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 931-935

  Loadsman, J A ^a   McCulloch, T J ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

controlled trials; data error; fraud; randomised

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; FRAUD; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; FLOODING; TSUNAMI;

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHETICS; FLOODS; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 85020236100     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.13962     Document Type: Editorial

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