Tackling publication bias and selective reporting in health informatics research: Register your eHealth trials in the international eHealth studies registry

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Eysenbach, Gunther ^a,b,c  

^a Centre for Global eHealth Innovation   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical protocols; Information Storage and Retrieval; Publication Bias; Randomized Controlled Trials standards; Registries

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PUBLISHING; REVIEW; EDITORIAL; HEALTH; INFORMATION SCIENCE; REGISTER; RESEARCH; STANDARD;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HEALTH; INFORMATICS; PUBLICATION BIAS; PUBLISHING; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH;

EID: 85045374114     PISSN: 14388871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.6.3.e35     Document Type: Review

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