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Quality and content of abstracts in papers reporting about drug exposures during pregnancy

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Most clinicians read only the abstract of papers in scientific journals. Therefore, it is very important that abstracts contain as much information as possible, to summarize the data succinctly. Our objectives were to evaluate the quality of information in abstracts reporting human fetal outcomes following drug exposure during pregnancy. METHODS: We developed quality criteria based on previous work, modifying them for use with …

Authors

Einarson TR; Lee C; Smith R; Manley J; Perstin J; Loniewska M; Zahedi P; Abu‐Ghazalah R; Einarson A

Journal

Birth Defects Research Part A Clinical and Molecular Teratology, Vol. 76, No. 8, pp. 621–628

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

8 2006

DOI

10.1002/bdra.20289

ISSN

1542-0752