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. 2016 Feb;109(2):67-77.
doi: 10.1177/0141076815625599.

A history of the evolution of guidelines for reporting medical research: the long road to the EQUATOR Network

Douglas G Altman  1 , Iveta Simera  2
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A history of the evolution of guidelines for reporting medical research: the long road to the EQUATOR Network

Douglas G Altman et al. J R Soc Med. 2016 Feb.
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Figure 1.
Some results from a 1961 review of published trials of psychiatric drugs by Sandifer et al.25
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The CONSORT 2010 flow diagram.53
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