Problems and pitfalls in medical literature : a practical guide for clinicians

Problems and pitfalls in medical literature : a practical guide for clinicians / Adam L. Cohen.

This book aims to teach the skills for assessing the quality of a medical article. It focuses on problems and pitfalls that may interfere with the validity of an article so that readers know what problems to look for and how to tell if an article has successfully addressed them. It focuses on concep...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Adam L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2023]
Subjects:
Medical literature > Evaluation.
Medicine > Research > Evaluation.
Research.
Periodicals.
research (function)
periodicals.
Medical literature > Evaluation
Medicine > Research > Evaluation
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Lead time bias
  • 2. Length time bias
  • 3. Immortal time bias
  • 4. Selection bias
  • 5. Ascertainment bias
  • 6. Publication bias
  • 7. Berkson's bias
  • 8. Hawthorne effect
  • 9. Will Rogers phenomenon
  • 10. Confounding by severity
  • 11. Simpson's paradox
  • 12. Multiple comparisons
  • 13. Validation
  • 14. Proportional hazard violation
  • 15. Changing endpoints
  • 16. Underpowering
  • 17. Overpowering
  • Conclusion.

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