Journal article
Addressing the Unit of Analysis in Medical Care Studies
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: We assessed the frequency that patients are incorrectly used as the unit of analysis among studies of physicians' patient care behavior in articles published in high impact journals.
METHODS: We surveyed 30 high-impact journals across 6 medical fields for articles susceptible to unit of analysis errors published from 1994 to 2005. Three reviewers independently abstracted articles using previously published criteria to determine the …
Authors
Calhoun AW; Guyatt GH; Cabana MD; Lu D; Turner DA; Valentine S; Randolph AG
Journal
Medical Care, Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 635–643
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
6 2008
DOI
10.1097/mlr.0b013e3181649412
ISSN
0025-7079