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Table 1 Figures in Reports of Clinical Trials in Five Medical Journals during November 2006 to January 2007.

From: Figures in clinical trial reports: current practice & scope for improvement

Journal

No. of articles (total 77)

Annals of Internal Medicine

7

British Medical Journal

16

Journal of American Medical Association

14

Lancet

12

New England Journal of Medicine

28

No. of Figures in each article

 

None

1

One

23

Two

22

Three

19

Four

11

Seven

1

Types of Figure in each article*

 

Flow Diagram

66

Kaplan Meier plot

32

Forest plot

21

Repeated measures

20

Bar chart

7

Individual patient data

3

Box plot

2

Cumulative distribution

1

  1. *Some articles had one type of Figure several times. In this Table each type of Figure is only counted once per article.
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