Abstracts reporting of HIV/AIDS randomized controlled trials in general medicine and infectious diseases journals: completeness to date and improvement in the quality since CONSORT extension for abstracts
Abstract Background Sufficiently detailed abstracts of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are important, because readers often base their assessment of a trial solely on information in the abstract. We aimed at comparing reporting quality of RCTs in HIV/AIDS medicine before and after the publicatio...
Main Authors: | Jean Joel R. Bigna, Jean Jacques N. Noubiap, Serra Lem Asangbeh, Lewis N. Um, Paule Sandra D. Sime, Elvis Temfack, Mathurin Cyrille Tejiokem |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2016-10-01
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Series: | BMC Medical Research Methodology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-016-0243-y |
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