Linear regression reporting practices for health researchers, a cross-sectional meta-research study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Decisions about health care, such as the effectiveness of new treatments for disease, are regularly made based on evidence from published work. However, poor reporting of statistical methods and results is endemic across health research and risks ineffective or harmful treatments being used in clinical practice. Statistical modelling choices often greatly influence the results. Authors do not always provide enough information to evaluate and repeat their methods, making interpreting results difficult. Our research is designed to understand current reporting practices and inform efforts to educate researchers.

Methods

Reporting practices for linear regression were assessed in 95 randomly sampled published papers in the health field from PLOS ONE in 2019, which were

SUBMITTER: Jones L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11925299 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature