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| Methods | Survey of reference accuracy; checked against original sources | |
| Data | 100 references randomly sampled from 1985 to 1995 issues of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [British], the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [American], and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research; and from 1985 to 1994 issues of Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica | |
| Comparisons | NA | |
| Outcomes | Citation accuracy | |
| Notes | Reports total number of errors in references, not how many references containe errors | |
