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Under the terms of Article III of its Statute, the IAEA is authorized to establish standards of safety for protection against ionizing radiation and to provide for the application of these standards to peaceful nuclear activities. The regulatory related publications by means of which the IAEA establishes safety standards and measures are issued in the IAEA Safety Standards Series. This series c...

BACKGROUND For a randomized trial, the primary publication is usually the one which reports the results of the primary outcome and provides consolidated data from all study centers. Other aspects of a randomized trial's findings (that is, non-primary results) are often reported in subsequent publications. METHODS We carried out a cross-sectional review of the characteristics and type of infor...

This review has been compiled to assess publications related to the clinical application of direct cerebral tissue oxygenation (pbtO2) monitoring published in international, peer-reviewed scientific journals, or major meeting reports published as journal supplements. Its goal was to extract relevant, i.e. positive and negative, information on indications, clinical application, safety issues and...

STUDY DESIGN Descriptive bibliometric analysis. BACKGROUND Content and bibliometric studies are useful for describing the publication patterns of a given profession, such as physical therapy, within the medical and allied health fields. However, few studies have conducted these analyses on specialty physical therapy journals. OBJECTIVES To conduct a content and bibliometric assessment of pu...