Influence of overstated abstract conclusions on clinicians: a web-based randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether overstatements in abstract conclusions influence primary care physicians' evaluations when they read reports of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) DESIGN: RCT setting: This study was a parallel-group randomised controlled survey, conducted online while masking the study hypothesis. PARTICIPANTS:Volunteers were recruited from members of the Japan Primary Care Association in January 2017. We sent email invitations to 7040 primary care physicians. Among the 787 individuals who accessed the website, 622 were eligible and automatically randomised into 'without overstatement' (n=307) and 'with overstatement' (n=315) groups. INTERVENTIONS:We selected five abstracts from published RCTs with at least one non-significant primary outcome and overstatement in the abs

SUBMITTER: Shinohara K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5736039 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature