RT Book, Section
A1 Livingston, Edward H.
A1 Lewis, Roger J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1172870280
T1 Preface
T2 JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260455328
LK jamaevidence.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1172870280
RD 2024/04/24
AB The  quantity  and  diversity  of  scientific  publications  are  vast  and  rapidly  expanding.  Yet,  the  quality  of  the  underlying  methodology  is  highly  variable  and  many  studies  have  poor  study  design  or  analysis.  While  editors  at  traditional  journals  invest  substantial  efforts  to  help  ensure  published  studies  are  performed  and  interpreted  correctly,  readers  of  those  journals  will  be  better  equipped  to  apply  study  results  to  their  individual  clinical  practice  if  they  appreciate  the  strengths  and  weaknesses  of  the  underlying  research  methodology.  With  the  increasing  popularity  of  preprint  servers,  clinicians  will  read  scientific  reports  prior  to  rigorous  peer  review,  which  requires  the  ability  to  independently  evaluate  the  design,  analysis,  and  interpretation  of  clinical  studies.  Now,  more  than  ever,  clinicians  must  have  sufficient  understanding  of  study  methodology  to  judge  if  what  they  are  reading  is  likely  to  be  valid  and  applicable  to  the  patients  they  treat.