The association between quality measures of medical university press releases and their corresponding news stories—Important information missing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2019, Pages

  Winters, Maike ^a   Larsson, Anna ^a,b   Kowalski, Jan ^c   Sundberg, Carl Johan ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Broadcasting Corporation   (Sweden)

^c JK Biostatistics AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CONTENT ANALYSIS; FUNDING; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PUBLIC FIGURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SWEDEN; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; UNIVERSITY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS MEDIA; NETHERLANDS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RECORDS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWEDEN; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 85067197077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217295     Document Type: Article

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