A scoping review of comparisons between abstracts and full reports in primary biomedical research

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Li, Guowei ^a,b,c   Abbade, Luciana P F ^d   Nwosu, Ikunna ^a   Jin, Yanling ^a   Leenus, Alvin ^a   Maaz, Muhammad ^a   Wang, Mei ^a   Bhatt, Meha ^a   Zielinski, Laura ^a   Sanger, Nitika ^a   Bantoto, Bianca ^a   Luo, Candice ^a   Shams, Ieta ^a   Shahid, Hamnah ^a   Chang, Yaping ^a   Sun, Guangwen ^a   Mbuagbaw, Lawrence ^a,b   Samaan, Zainab ^a   Levine, Mitchell A H ^a,b,c   Adachi, Jonathan D ^a,b   Thabane, Lehana ^a,b   more..

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR EVALUATION OF MEDICINES   (Canada)

^d SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abstract; Accuracy; Deficiency; Discrepancy; Inconsistent reporting; Scoping review; Spin

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; BIAS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH REPORT; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 85039766461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12874-017-0459-5     Document Type: Review

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