Poor replication validity of biomedical association studies reported by newspapers.
OBJECTIVE:To investigate the replication validity of biomedical association studies covered by newspapers. METHODS:We used a database of 4723 primary studies included in 306 meta-analysis articles. These studies associated a risk factor with a disease in three biomedical domains, psychiatry, neurolo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5319681?pdf=render |