Four Proposals to Help Improve the Medical Research Literature

PLoS Med. 2015 Sep 22;12(9):e1001864. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001864. eCollection 2015 Sep.

Authors

David Moher¹, Douglas G Altman²

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute; School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
² Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Abstract

David Moher and Douglas Altman outline four potential interventions that may improve the quality of peer-reviewed medical research publications.

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research*
Humans
Peer Review, Research / standards*
Periodicals as Topic
Professional Competence*
Publishing / standards*
Quality Improvement*

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