01-10-2008
The baseline characteristics did not differ significantly
Auteurs:
Peter Fayers, Madeleine King
Gepubliceerd in:
Quality of Life Research
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Uitgave 8/2008
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Excerpt
Last week one of us (P.F.) received a message from a colleague: “Thank you for the analyses, but you forgot the
P-values on Table 1”. Well, they had not been “forgotten”. While the first note in this series referred to the misleading use of
P-values when reporting correlation coefficients during the evaluation of instruments [
1],
P-values can also be inappropriate or misleading in other situations. Herein we describe an example that is frequently encountered when reviewing manuscripts about randomised clinical trials with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes. …