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. 2004 Nov 6;329(7474):1093-6.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7474.1093.

Users' guide to detecting misleading claims in clinical research reports

Victor M Montori  1 , Roman Jaeschke, Holger J Schünemann, Mohit Bhandari, Jan L Brozek, P J Devereaux, Gordon H Guyatt
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Users' guide to detecting misleading claims in clinical research reports

Victor M Montori et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Plenty of advice is available to help readers identify studies with weak methods, but would you be able to identify misleading claims in a report of a well conducted study?

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