Article: Figures in clinical trial reports: current practice & scope for improvement.(Research)

Authors: Stuart J Pocock (corresponding author) [1]; Thomas G Travison [2]; Lisa M Wruck [2,3]

Introduction

Much has been written about how to visually display quantitative information, [1, 2, 3, 4] and some attention has been paid to the specific constraints of including figures in Medical journal articles [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. In this article we focus on the use of figures in reports of randomised clinical trials, for which there is little specific guidance available at present[10].

In order to understand current practice, we undertook a survey of recent publications of randomized clinical trial in major general medical journals. This provides ...

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