Risk of bias reporting in the recent animal focal cerebral ischaemia literature

Clinical Science

Volumn 131, Issue 20, 2017, Pages 2525-2532

  Bahor, Zsanett ^a   Liao, Jing ^a   Macleod, Malcolm R ^a   Bannach Brown, Alexandra ^a   McCann, Sarah K ^a   Wever, Kimberley E ^b   Thomas, James ^c   Ottavi, Thomas ^d   Howells, David W ^d   Rice, Andrew ^e   Ananiadou, Sophia ^f   Sena, Emily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; LACUNAR STROKE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; RISK; STATISTICAL BIAS;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; RISK; STROKE;

EID: 85031094347     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: 14708736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/CS20160722     Document Type: Review

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