Proper Reporting of Statistical Parameters in Clinical Trials Published in Indian Medical Journals. Is Inclusion of Statistician Play any Significant Role?

It is observed that the clinical trials published in various medical journals are poor in reporting of various methodological aspects, including sample size calculation and power.^[1] It is difficult to generalize the results of clinical trials having poor reporting of statistics to the normal patient population and conducting these clinical trials raises ethical issues.^[2] It is always advisable to take the help of a statistician both during the analysis of data and design of clinical trials.^[3] Not associating a statistician while designing clinical trials is associated with the poor reporting of statistical parameters in clinical trials.^[3].Read more..,