Development of a spreadsheet for the calculation of new tools to improve the reporting of the resultsof medical research

Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 121-127

  Shakespeare, Thomas P ^a,b,d   Gebski, Val J ^b,c   Thiagarajan, Anuradha ^a,b   Lu, Jiade Jay ^a,b  

^a Cancer Institute   (Singapore)

^b PRIMER Collaboration   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Australia)

^d Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical significance curves; Confidence intervals; Confidence levels; Decision making; Evidence based medicine; Result interpretation; Risk benefit contours; Spreadsheet; Statistical reporting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PLOTS AND CURVES; PROCESS DESIGN; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WEB BROWSER;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA DISPLAY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; NEW SOUTH WALES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33745262550     PISSN: 14639238     EISSN: 14645246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14639230600551397     Document Type: Article

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