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Survey of Active Verbs in the Titles of Clinical Trial Reports

BMJ (Online), 2000-04, Vol.320 (7239), p.914-915 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Survey of Active Verbs in the Titles of Clinical Trial Reports
Author: Goodman, Neville W.
Subjects: Clinical trials ; Clinical Trials as Topic ; Confidence intervals ; Editorials ; Humans ; Hypotheses ; Information in Practice ; Information Storage and Retrieval ; Periodicals as Topic ; Reproducibility of Results ; Researchers ; Studies ; Verbs ; Writing
Is Part Of: BMJ (Online), 2000-04, Vol.320 (7239), p.914-915
Description: 2 Weiss objected to an "overly optimistic" title beginning "Improved survival ..." from a pilot study using historical controls. 3 According to the popperian model, hypotheses cannot be proved but only supported or rejected, and then only to an arbitrary level of statistical significance. The BMJ is thus designed that most of the messages it contains can be extracted within 15 minutes-with subheadings in editorials, TWIBs, active verbs in news stories, boxes on what original studies add, summary boxes in review articles, and declarative titles in all letters.
Publisher: England: British Medical Association
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0959-8138
EISSN: 1756-1833
EISSN: 1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.320.7239.914
PMID: 10742001
Source: MEDLINE
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