Table 1

Number of abstracts in each subcategory in a randomly selected corpus of 455 RCT abstracts.

Classes

Total

R1

R2

R3

N1

N2

N3


Single RCT

Complex RCT

RCT substudy

RCT protocol or announcement

Systematic review

Other study


N (%)

455

336 (73.8%)

21 (4.6%)

34 (7.5%)

5 (1.1%)

6 (1.3%)

53 (11.6%)


Chung and Coiera BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008 8:48   doi:10.1186/1472-6947-8-48

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