Editorial Commentary: There, It Fits!-Justifying Nonsignificant P Values

[摘要] The increasing emphasis placed on value-based medicine has become a powerful motivating factor that has driven the performance and publication of more comparative clinical outcome studies. Although these endeavors are well intentioned and significant progress has been made in our field over the past few decades, I believe that we need both to re-emphasize the importance of results derived from meaningful study designs and to avoid the notion that nonsignificant P values represent study failure.

[发布日期] 2016-11-01