medical journals
Accuracy of drug advertisements in medical journals under new law regulating the marketing of pharmaceutical products in Switzerland
... be aware that the pharmaceutical industry may use drug advertisements to influence prescription patterns even when this results in distortion of scientific facts. The phar- maceutical industry should be more responsible ...
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Handling missing data in RCTs; a review of the top medical journals
... top medical journals: the British Medical Journal (BMJ); Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA); The Lancet; and New England Jour- nal of Medicine (NEJM) between July and December ...
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Comparison of methodological quality of positive versus negative comparative studies published in Indian medical journals: a systematic review
... that journals seems to follow the same quality standards for positive as well as negative studies in the review ...nursing journals in which investigators found signi fi cantly higher level of methodological ...
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Common statistical and research design problems in manuscripts submitted to high impact medical journals
... in medical research has increased in recent years owing to the greater complexity of statistics in medicine and the focus on evidence-based ...of medical journals are charged with evaluating the ...
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Demography of Medical Journals in Iran; a Cross-Sectional Study
... Iranian journals make up only 0.26% of 30000 journals that are indexed in PubMed ...Iranian journals are indicative of the relatively acceptable status of the journals in this ...these ...
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Reporting of Negative Randomized Trials in Three Major Medical Journals
... major journals and to identify factors associated with these ...American Medical Association, The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine before (2002-’03, pre-registration era) and after (2007-’08, ...
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A survey of prevalence of narrative and systematic reviews in five major medical journals
... five journals only. However, the literature search in only these five medical journals was the main in- clusion criterion in our study, and it might be considered a “strength” due to the potential ...
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Levels of evidence: a comparison between top medical journals and general pediatric journals
... such, journals emphasizing or exclusively publishing research from the basic sciences were excluded from this para- ...pediatric journals selected for review in- cluded Pediatrics, Journal of Pediatrics ...
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No improvement in the reporting of clinical trial subgroup effects in high impact general medical journals
... general medical journals [11–16], subspecialties [17, 18], and surgery [19], understanding the underlying factors that influence reporting and use of appropriate methodology has not been well ...high-impact ...
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Performance of Malaysian Medical Journals
... Malaysian medical journals at the international level is gauged through the global citation databases, and at the national level through MyCite, a national citation indexing ...include journals ...
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Reporting Statistical Results in Medical Journals
... Statistical editors of the Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences (MJMS) must go through many submitted manuscripts, focusing on the statistical aspect of the manuscripts. However, the editors notice myriad styles ...
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The Use of the World Wide Web by Medical Journals in 2003 and 2005: An Observational Study
... how medical journals were using the WWW in 2005 and ...Web-only journals but very few print-only jour- nals; virtually all of the high-impact print journals now have some presence on the ...
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Reporting quality of randomised controlled trial abstracts among high-impact general medical journals: a review and analysis
... general medical journals examined in our study have endorsed the use of CONSORT as well as the CONSORT for Abstracts check- list, either through their instructions to authors, inclu- sion on the CONSORT ...
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Professional medical writing support and the reporting quality of randomized controlled trial abstracts among high impact general medical journals
... professional medical writing support was not associated with improvements in reporting of other CONSORT for Abstract items, including specification in the title of the design of the study (item 2) and that it was ...
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Medical Journals and Free Speech
... ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION To avoid libel chill, publishers of scientific journals should ask the right question when considering whether an article names company names. The wrong question is, “Might publication ...
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Conflict-of-interest disclosure at medical journals in Japan: a nationwide survey of the practices of journal secretariats
... Japanese medical world may prevent editorial-secretariat staff from contributing fully to the development and imple- mentation of processes for managing COI-related issues, and that would also be true in similarly ...
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Endorsement of the CONSORT Statement by high impact factor medical journals: a survey of journal editors and journal 'Instructions to Authors'
... of journals required recent clinical trials to be registered as a requirement of submission to that ...these journals did not pro- vide the same endorsement of the CONSORT Statement despite recognising the ...
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Evidence for risk of bias in cluster randomised trials: review of recent trials published in three general medical journals
... In most clinical trials participants are randomised as individuals to different treatments. Sometimes indi- vidual allocation is not possible or desirable, and groups of individuals are randomised instead: this is known ...
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A review of RCTs in four medical journals to assess the use of imputation to overcome missing data in quality of life outcomes
... Current CONSORT guidelines [13] for the reporting of RCTs require authors to provide a flow diagram of partic- ipants in the trial. This should detail the withdrawals and reasons for withdrawal. The majority of trials (n ...
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Scientific Achievements of Medical Journals in Occupational Accidents
... According to the results, published papers were mostly (98%) original research. This is in line with the findings of some previously conducted studies. For example, Ghahnavieh et al. [29] reported that the most of ...
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