title: Randomized controlled trials in cancer: improving the quality of their reports will also facilitate better conduct.
abstract: There has been a renewed interest in ways to help improve the quality of reports of clinical trials recently. In this paper we describe these developments. This work has also focused increased attention on how clinical trials are planned and executed. Some common problems are reviewed and suggestions for improving their conduct are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ontario. 107656.3375@compuserve.com
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moher
authors.forename: K F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Schulz
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design