Collaboration in orthodontic clinical trials: prevalence and association with sample size and funding

Progress in Orthodontics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Al Moghrabi, D ^a,b   Tsichlaki, A ^a   Pandis, N ^c,d   Fleming, P S ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCESS NOURAH BINT ABDULRAHMAN UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNDING; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); ORTHODONTICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COOPERATION; DENTAL RESEARCH; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY;

CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DENTAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; ORTHODONTICS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 85048515427     PISSN: 17237785     EISSN: 21961042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40510-018-0215-3     Document Type: Article

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