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. 2008 Jun 28;336(7659):1472-4.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.39590.732037.47.

What is missing from descriptions of treatment in trials and reviews?

Paul Glasziou  1 , Emma Meats, Carl Heneghan, Sasha Shepperd
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What is missing from descriptions of treatment in trials and reviews?

Paul Glasziou et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Replicating non-pharmacological treatments in practice depends on how well they have been described in research studies

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Fig 1 Selecting studies for inclusion in one year’s issues of Evidence-Based Medicine
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Fig 2 Percentage of studies with sufficient description of treatment initially (based only on the published paper) and after supplementary information was obtained.
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