Randomized clinical trials in orthodontics are rarely registered a priori and often published late or not at all

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Papageorgiou, Spyridon N ^a   Antonoglou, Georgios N ^b,c   Sándor, George K ^b,d   Eliades, Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; ORTHODONTICS; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

HUMANS; ORTHODONTICS; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES;

EID: 85026872997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182785     Document Type: Article

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