Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
Guyatt G, Rennie D, Meade MO, Cook DJ
Part B Therapy
Chapter 11.3. Dealing With Misleading Presentations of Clinical Trial Results
Victor Montori, John Ioannidis, Roman Jaeschke, P. J. Devereaux, Holger Schünemann, Mohit Bhandari, Gordon Guyatt
For instance, McCormack and Greenhalgh38 pointed out that report 33 of the United...
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Excerpt:
"The discussion (and to some extent the abstracts, introduction,
and the conclusion section of structured abstracts) often offers
inferences that differ from those a dispassionate reader would draw
from the methods and results.7..."
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