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Peer review blues. (Indications).(Brief Article)
Two family physicians at the University of California, Davis, are taking on the peer review process. Dr. Jim Nuovo and his associates reviewed 359 articles on new treatments published between 1989 and 1998 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the British Journal of Medicine, JAMA, the Lancet, and the New EnglandJournal of Medicine (JAMA 287[21]:2813-14, 2002). "In the majority of cases, only the most favorable statistic--the 'relative-risk reduction'--was used when reporting the results of theses …
