Critical Analysis of Clinical Research Articles: A Guide for Evaluation

2016 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Roever ◽  
Elmiro Santos Resende ◽  
Angelica Lemos Debs Diniz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Research Articles

scholarly journals Understanding the nature and scope of clinical research commentaries in PubMed

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-456
Author(s):  
James R Rogers ◽  
Hollis Mills ◽  
Lisa V Grossman ◽  
Andrew Goldstein ◽  
Chunhua Weng
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Disease Specific ◽  
Research Studies

Abstract Scientific commentaries are expected to play an important role in evidence appraisal, but it is unknown whether this expectation has been fulfilled. This study aims to better understand the role of scientific commentary in evidence appraisal. We queried PubMed for all clinical research articles with accompanying comments and extracted corresponding metadata. Five percent of clinical research studies (N = 130 629) received postpublication comments (N = 171 556), resulting in 178 882 comment–article pairings, with 90% published in the same journal. We obtained 5197 full-text comments for topic modeling and exploratory sentiment analysis. Topics were generally disease specific with only a few topics relevant to the appraisal of studies, which were highly prevalent in letters. Of a random sample of 518 full-text comments, 67% had a supportive tone. Based on our results, published commentary, with the exception of letters, most often highlight or endorse previous publications rather than serve as a prominent mechanism for critical appraisal.

scholarly journals Culture Unbound Volume 6, Editorial

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Johan Fornäs ◽  
Martin Fredriksson ◽  
Naomi Stead
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Complex Transformation ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
New Perspective

With this volume, Culture Unbound celebrates its five-year anniversary. This makes a good opportunity both to look back at what we have achieved and to gaze ahead to what we have planned for the future. This new volume, which will be more extensive and ambitious than ever, thus marks a readiness and willingness to engage with some of the most acute problems and complex transformation that society faces. We hope and believe that this not only expresses the ambitions of Culture Unbound but also reflects a more general tendency within contemporary cultural research. In order to better accommodate the most recent developments within the field of cultural research, and facilitate intellectual discussion and critical analysis of contemporary issues we also plan to expand our repertoire of published material. In the coming year Culture Unbound will therefore introduce a section of texts we have chosen to call ‘Unbound Ideas’. Here we welcome academic essays and texts of a somewhat shorter format and freer approach to scholarly convention than our usual full-length research articles. These essays will take different – perhaps speculative or conjectural – positions, or give a new perspective on pressing topics or recently emerged concerns within cultural research.

Quality of Research and Level of Evidence in Foot and Ankle Publications

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather L. Barske ◽  
Judith Baumhauer
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Foot And Ankle ◽  
Level Of Evidence ◽  
Ankle Surgery ◽  
Ankle Research ◽  
Level I ◽  
Quality Of Research

Background: The quality of research and evidence to support medical treatments is under scrutiny from the medical profession and the public. This study examined the current quality of research and level of evidence (LOE) of foot and ankle surgery papers published in orthopedic and podiatric medical journals. Methods: Two independent evaluators performed a blinded assessment of all foot and ankle clinical research articles (January 2010 to June 2010) from seven North American orthopedic and podiatric journals. JBJS-A grading system was used for LOE. Articles were assessed for indicators of study quality. The data was stratified by journal and medical credentials. Results: A total of 245 articles were published, 128 were excluded based on study design, leaving 117 clinical research articles. Seven (6%) were Level I, 14 (12%) Level II, 18 (15%) Level III, and 78 (67%) Level IV. The orthopedic journals published 78 studies on foot and ankle topics. Of the podiatric journals, the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association (JAPMA) published 12 clinical studies and the Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery (JFAS) published 27, 21 (78%) of which were Level IV studies. When the quality of research was examined, few therapeutic studies used validated outcome measures and only 38 of 96 (40%) gathered data prospectively. Thirty (31%) studies used a comparison group. Eighty-seven articles (74%) were authored by a MD and 22 (19%) by a DPM. Conclusion: Foot & Ankle International (FAI) published higher quality studies with a higher LOE as compared to podiatry journals. Regardless of the journal, MDs produced the majority of published clinical foot and ankle research. Although improvements have been made in the quality of some clinical research, this study highlights the need for continued improvement in methodology within foot and ankle literature.

Patient safety in clinical research articles

2013 ◽  
Vol 123 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-95
Author(s):  
Anthony M. Vintzileos ◽  
Peter S. Finamore ◽  
Genevieve B. Sicuranza ◽  
Cande V. Ananth
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Research Articles

Critical analysis of clinical research reporting in pediatric surgery: justifying the need for a new standard

2003 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 1739-1743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn J Rangel ◽  
Jennifer Kelsey ◽  
Marion C.W Henry ◽  
R.Lawrence Moss
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Pediatric Surgery ◽  
Research Reporting

Critical View of Multiple Channels Retailing

2021 ◽  
pp. 302-313
Author(s):  
Richard Ladwein ◽  
Thouraya Ben Achma ◽  
Mohamed Slim Ben Mimoun
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Distribution Channels ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Shopping Behavior ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Multiple Channels ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Multiple Channel

The aim of this chapter is to better understand the gap that exists between the literature dealing with multiple channels shopping behavior and the actual shoppers' behavior. Adopting a critical analysis of a large literature of research articles dealing with consumer behavior and retailing in a multiple channel context, covering the period from 2002 to 2020, this chapter identifies an important gap in the literature: generally the authors define the different situations of multiple channels retailing (e.g., multichannel, crosschannel, and omni-channel) from the company point of view, and the main distribution channels presented in the literature review do not reproduce the richness of variety of channels available to the shoppers. Implications for future research related to multiple channel retailing and shopping behavior are discussed.

scholarly journals The changing geography of clinical research: a critical analysis of its drivers

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolin Haeussler ◽  
Bastian Rake
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
Critical Analysis
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