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Erschienen in: European Spine Journal 5/2018

26.03.2018 | Letter to the Editor

Generalizing the results: how can we improve our reports?

verfasst von: Mikhail Saltychev, Merja Eskola

Erschienen in: European Spine Journal | Ausgabe 5/2018

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The most common goal of clinical research is to measure the probable effect of the intervention in clinical practice. Unfortunately, reports are often limited to describing only a studied sample and not an entire population itself. We were interested to investigate how well reports on high-end randomized controlled studies in the field of surgery present information regarding a population outside the studied sample. …
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Metadaten
Titel
Generalizing the results: how can we improve our reports?
verfasst von
Mikhail Saltychev
Merja Eskola
Publikationsdatum
26.03.2018
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
European Spine Journal / Ausgabe 5/2018
Print ISSN: 0940-6719
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-0932
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-018-5558-4

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