ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2011
Recognizing, investigating and dealing with incomplete and biased reporting of clinical research: from Francis Bacon to the WHO.
Article in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 38 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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2 authors.
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Abstract
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