Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Guideline
. 2015 Aug;48(2):180-93.
doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezv168. Epub 2015 May 12.

Statistical and data reporting guidelines for the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery

Graeme L Hickey  1 , Joel Dunning  2 , Burkhardt Seifert  3 , Gottfried Sodeck  4 , Matthew J Carr  5 , Hans Ulrich Burger  6 , Friedhelm Beyersdorf  7 ; EJCTS and ICVTS Editorial Committees
Affiliations
Free article
Guideline

Statistical and data reporting guidelines for the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery

Graeme L Hickey et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2015 Aug.
Free article

Erratum in

Abstract

As part of the peer review process for the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EJCTS) and the Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery (ICVTS), a statistician reviews any manuscript that includes a statistical analysis. To facilitate authors considering submitting a manuscript and to make it clearer about the expectations of the statistical reviewers, we present up-to-date guidelines for authors on statistical and data reporting specifically in these journals. The number of statistical methods used in the cardiothoracic literature is vast, as are the ways in which data are presented. Therefore, we narrow the scope of these guidelines to cover the most common applications submitted to the EJCTS and ICVTS, focusing in particular on those that the statistical reviewers most frequently comment on.

Keywords: Data; Guidelines; Peer-review; Reporting; Statistics.

PubMed Disclaimer