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
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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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description 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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spelling pubmed-88266912022-02-11 COVID-19 research: quality of biostatistics Ordak, Michal Arch Med Sci Research Letter 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. Termedia Publishing House 2021-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8826691/ /pubmed/35154545 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms/144644 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Termedia & Banach https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
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COVID-19 research: quality of biostatistics
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8826691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35154545
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