Table 5 |
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Frequency of presence of the term Significance (or statistical significance) in conclusions across periods, languages and research areas. |
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Criteria |
Categories |
Number of papers examined |
Frequency of presence of significance in conclusions |
% (95%CI) |
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|
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Period |
1995-1996 |
285 |
35 |
14 (9 to 19) |
|
|
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2000-2001 |
278 |
32 |
12 (8 to 16) |
|
|
|
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2005-2006 |
306 |
41 |
14 (9 to 19) |
|
|
|
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|
Language |
Spanish |
396 |
39 |
10 (7 to 13) |
|
|
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English |
473 |
69 |
15 (11 to 18) |
|
|
|
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Area |
Clinical |
300 |
44 |
16 (11 to 20) |
|
|
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General Medicine |
278 |
30 |
11 (7 to 15) |
|
|
|
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|
Public Health and Epidemiology |
291 |
34 |
12 (8 to 16) |
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CI: Confidence Interval |
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Silva-Ayçaguer et al. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2010 10:44 doi:10.1186/1471-2288-10-44 |
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