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Handling missing data in RCTs; a review of the top medical journals

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, November 2014
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Title
Handling missing data in RCTs; a review of the top medical journals
Published in
BMC Medical Research Methodology, November 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2288-14-118
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Authors

Melanie L Bell, Mallorie Fiero, Nicholas J Horton, Chiu-Hsieh Hsu

Abstract

Missing outcome data is a threat to the validity of treatment effect estimates in randomized controlled trials. We aimed to evaluate the extent, handling, and sensitivity analysis of missing data and intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in top tier medical journals, and compare our findings with previous reviews related to missing data and ITT in RCTs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 <1%
France 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 337 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 66 19%
Researcher 53 15%
Student > Master 47 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 6%
Student > Bachelor 17 5%
Other 55 16%
Unknown 84 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 66 19%
Psychology 33 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 31 9%
Mathematics 23 7%
Social Sciences 19 6%
Other 62 18%
Unknown 110 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 August 2022.
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#1,610,131
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Outputs from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#215
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#6
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