Making public health interventions more evidence based
BMJPublished 22 April 2004Open access
Betty Kirkwood
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The aim of the TREND statement is to improve the quality of reporting of non-randomised evaluations so that the conduct and findings of such research are transparent and information that is critical for research synthesis is not missing.
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