An evaluation of the quality of statistical design and analysis of published medical research: Results from a systematic survey of general orthopaedic journals

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Parsons, Nick R ^a   Price, Charlotte L ^b   Hiskens, Richard ^c   Achten, Juul ^a   Costa, Matthew L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDICS; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORTHOPEDICS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84862170282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-12-60     Document Type: Article

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