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Looking at data of clinical trials

J Heart Health Cir • 2017
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Publication Information
Authors Bendary A
Keywords Trials; Data; Interpretation
Journal J Heart Health Cir
Publisher iMedpub journals
Volume 1
Issue 1
Pages Not Available
publication.type International
Paper Link Open Link
Supplementary Materials Not Available
Abstract
My father once told me when I was a child:“if you believe all what you read, do not read!”
Later on, I realized that this's true, especially in the era of evidence based medicine.
Recently, data fabrication has emerged as a nail in a coffin for clinical trials [1]. There is a
natural tendency to assess the results of randomized clinical trials as either positive or
negative according to whether the P value for the primary outcome measure is< 0.05 or>
0.05. However, such an interpretation is overly simplistic