COVID-19 research: quality of biostatistics

INTRODUCTION: In recent years, unfortunately, low quality of statistical analyses in medicine has been observed. As it turns out, this also applies to COVID-19 subject matter. METHODS: The study included 2600 medical articles published between the beginning of 2020 and June 2021, in which the author...

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Autor principal: Ordak, Michal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2021
Materias:
Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8826691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35154545
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms/144644
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: In recent years, unfortunately, low quality of statistical analyses in medicine has been observed. As it turns out, this also applies to COVID-19 subject matter. METHODS: The study included 2600 medical articles published between the beginning of 2020 and June 2021, in which the authors described the obtained results, i.e. related to COVID-19. RESULTS: Of the analysed articles, 39% were correct in terms of the statistical analysis performed. CONCLUSIONS: There should be more emphasis on conducting statistical reviews in authors’ contributions on various aspects of COVID-19.

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