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ArticleIndian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine

Statistical Significance versus Clinical Relevance: Key Considerations in Interpretation Medical Research Data.

Yousif AbdulRaheem

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Article in Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. [Interpretation of effect measures in clinical research: A practical guide for the clinician].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2026
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  11. The effect of transient sex hormone fluctuations on vascular endothelial function.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Yousif AbdulRaheemChairman of the Scientific Council for Family and Community Medicine Specialties - Iraqi Board for Medical Specializations, Baghdad, Iraq.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medical research plays a crucial role in advancing our understanding of various aspects related to health, including disease, risk factors, and patient management. However, the interpretation of research data becomes intricate when considering the notions of statistical significance and clinical relevance. It is not uncommon to interpret findings that demonstrate statistical significance as indicative of clinical relevance. To explain it in a more straightforward way, statistical significance, ascertained through statistical tests using the

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ClinicalP valuerelevancesignificancestatistical

Identifiers

PMID39668913
PMCPMC11633268

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