Reporting findings in sleep medicine: is it time for some spin control?

Affiliations

¹ Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia.
² Center for Sleep and Cardiovascular Outcomes Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Editorial

Kelly A Loffler et al. Sleep. 2023.

. 2023 Jun 13;46(6):zsad045.

doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsad045.

¹ Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia.
² Center for Sleep and Cardiovascular Outcomes Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

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Comment on

'Spin' among abstracts of randomised controlled trials in sleep medicine: A research-on-research study.
Guo F, Zhao T, Zhai Q, Fang X, Yue H, Hua F, He H. Guo F, et al. Sleep. 2023 Mar 2:zsad041. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsad041. Online ahead of print. Sleep. 2023. PMID: 36861330

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