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Impact of Spin in the Abstracts of Articles Reporting Results of Randomized Controlled Trials in the Field of Cancer: The SPIIN Randomized Controlled Trial.
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PURPOSE: We aimed to assess the impact of spin (ie, reporting to convince readers that the beneficial effect of the experimental treatment is greater than shown by the results) on the interpretation of results of abstracts of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the field of cancer. METHODS: We performed a two-arm, parallel-group RCT. We selected a sample of published RCTs with statistically nonsignificant primary outcome and with spin in the abstract conclusion. Two versions of these abstr...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Publisher:
- American Society of Clinical Oncology
- Journal:
- Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
- Volume:
- 32
- Issue:
- 36
- Pages:
- 4120-4126
- Publication date:
- 2014-12-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1527-7755
- ISSN:
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0732-183X
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:490977
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- Local pid:
- pubs:490977
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490977
- Deposit date:
- 2014-12-04
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- Copyright date:
- 2014
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