Confidence Interval

Interpreting Results from Clinical Research

Introduction Practicing Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) has become the norm in Clinical Medicine for past few decades. Generating evidences by carrying out and publishing clinical research of various types (clinical trials, observational studies) have become a norm. It has been observed that around 80% of the clinical research findings and interpretations are not replicable, implicating that wrong clinical decisions are made based on the false findings. Major factors contributing to false results are biases created by researcher, editorial boards of journals and mis-interpretation of statistical terminologies.