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Almost significant: trends and P values in the use of phrases describing marginally significant results in 567,758 randomized controlled trials published between 1990 and 2020

2021-03-03

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<h4>Objective</h4> To quantitatively map how non-significant outcomes are reported in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) over the last thirty years. <h4>Design</h4> Quantitative analysis of English full-texts containing 567,758 RCTs recorded in PubMed (81.5% of all published RCTs). <h4>Methods</h4> We determined the exact presence of 505 pre-defined phrases denoting results that do not reach formal statisti...

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Literature Corpus work: e6b5371f-1f21-50da-bdb9-1f60d99457ee
DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.01.21252701

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