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March 21, 2026American journal of optometry and physiological optics

A Survey of Biostatistics in Clinical Journals

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JDJack Daubs

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Implication

A survey reports the common use of biostatistical procedures in clinical writing, suggesting a gap in clinician interest.

Key Points

  • The aim is to examine the prevalence of biostatistics procedures in clinical journals and clinician engagement with the topic.
  • Conducted a survey of selected clinical journals
  • Analyzed the use of biostatistical procedures in publications
  • Assessed clinician interest in biostatistics
  • Biostatistical procedures are commonly used in clinical writing
  • Many procedures could be understood from basic statistical knowledge
  • Clinicians show little interest in learning about statistics

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Jack Daubs (1980) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69be37726e48c4981c677229https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2330-9512.1980.tb00015.x
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