Reporting guidelines: Doing better for readers

BMC Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Moher, David ^a,b  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

audit and feedback; EQUATOR; evidence; Quality of reporting; reporting guidelines; reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CAREER; EDITOR; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; STANDARDS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; PUBLICATIONS; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH REPORT;

EID: 85058518618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-018-1226-0     Document Type: Review

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