Category:Research terminology

Terms used in research, and to assess research bias.

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 * Adverse event
 * Attrition bias
 * Blinded trial, blinding, masking
 * Case study
 * Clinically significant / Statistical significance
 * Confidence interval CI
 * CONSORT statement - for reporting on Randomized trials
 * COPE standard - editorial standard
 * Cross-over trial
 * Deviation
 * Editorial correction eg SMILE trial
 * Evidence-based medicine (EBM)
 * Feasibility study
 * Fabrication
 * Falsification
 * Falsifiability of a theory
 * Freedom of Information Act request
 * Helsinki Declaration
 * Inclusion criteria
 * Informed consent
 * Meta-analysis
 * Morbidity
 * Nocebo / nocebo effect
 * Note of concern / Expression of concern - eg PLoS One for PACE trial
 * Null result
 * Number needed to treat (NNT)
 * Odds radio OR
 * Objective outcome
 * Observational study
 * Performance bias
 * Placebo / placebo effect
 * Primary outcome measure
 * Principal investigator PI
 * Pre-registration of clinical trial / Pre-registered
 * Pre-specified
 * Protocol
 * Publication bias
 * Reporting bias
 * Reproducibility of results
 * Research misconduct
 * Response bias
 * Retraction
 * Secondary outcome measure
 * Selection bias
 * Selection criteria
 * Selective interpretation of evidence
 * Selective outcome reporting
 * Sensitivity
 * Serious adverse event
 * Sham comparitor
 * Specificity
 * Standard deviation SD
 * Statistical significance
 * Subjective outcome
 * Systematic review

Learn more

 * How Not to Conduct a Randomized Clinical Trial (video) - Bruce Levin
 * Glossary - Health Research Authority
 * A glossary of Evidence-based Medicine terminology - BMJ
 * Appraise the evidence - BMJ Best Practice