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Published on: November 10, 2023
COVID-19 research: quality of biostatistics
1Department of Pharmacodynamics, Centre for Preclinical Research and Technology (CePT), Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Introduction:
In recent years, unfortunately, low quality of statistical analyses in medicine has been observed. As it turns out, this also applies to COVID-19 subject matter.
Methods:
The study included 2600 medical articles published between the beginning of 2020 and June 2021, in which the authors described the obtained results, i.e. related to COVID-19.
Results:
Of the analysed articles, 39% were correct in terms of the statistical analysis performed.
Conclusions:
There should be more emphasis on conducting statistical reviews in authors' contributions on various aspects of COVID-19.
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