P-Hacking in Orthopaedic Literature: A Twist to the Tail

Conclusions:
P-hacking is an evolving phenomenon that threatens to jeopardize the evidence-based practice of medicine. Although our results show that there is good evidential value for orthopaedic literature published in our top journals, there is some evidence of p-hacking of which authors and readers should be wary.

Source: JBJS - October 18, 2016 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Bin Abd Razak, H. R., Ang, J.-G. E., Attal, H., Howe, T.-S., Allen, J. C. Tags: Ethics in Practice Source Type: research