A Practical Guide to Biostatistics Used in the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine.

IF 3 3区医学 Q2 CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Journal of Intensive Care Medicine Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI:10.1177/08850666251318692

Emma Kar, Asahi Murata, Chase Irwin, Eric vanSonnenberg

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Abstract

Introduction: Biostatistics is an increasing focus in both the United States Medical Licensing exams (USMLE) and medical school curricula. Nonetheless, literature has documented that it is poorly understood among both practicing physicians and physician trainees. Our purpose is to narrow this knowledge gap by offering readers a "how-to" guide that both supplements essential biostatistics knowledge and assists in constructing research projects.

Methods: In Part II of our tandem manuscripts, we expand our Part I biostatistics analysis of research articles in the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine (JICM) with explanations and practical use of biostatistics, addressing the most common statistical terms and tests used in the JICM.

Results: Understanding biostatistics requires interpreting the type of study, type of data collected, statistical tests available for all types of data, and results of the statistical tests.

Conclusion: Gaining proficiency in biostatistics will improve the precision of evidence-based medical outcomes, helping close the current knowledge gap among practicing physicians and trainees.

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《重症医学杂志生物统计学实用指南》。

生物统计学在美国医学执照考试（USMLE）和医学院课程中越来越受到关注。尽管如此，文献已经证明，在执业医师和医师培训生中，对它的理解都很差。我们的目的是通过向读者提供“如何”指南来缩小这一知识差距，该指南既补充了基本的生物统计学知识，又有助于构建研究项目。方法：在我们的联合手稿的第二部分中，我们扩展了第一部分对重症医学杂志（JICM）研究文章的生物统计学分析，解释和生物统计学的实际应用，解决了JICM中最常见的统计术语和测试。结果：理解生物统计学需要解释研究的类型、收集的数据类型、对所有类型数据可用的统计检验以及统计检验的结果。结论：熟练掌握生物统计学知识将提高循证医学结果的准确性，有助于缩小目前执业医师和学员之间的知识差距。

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Journal of Intensive Care Medicine CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE-

CiteScore

7.60

自引率

3.20%

发文量

107

期刊介绍： Journal of Intensive Care Medicine (JIC) is a peer-reviewed bi-monthly journal offering medical and surgical clinicians in adult and pediatric intensive care state-of-the-art, broad-based analytic reviews and updates, original articles, reports of large clinical series, techniques and procedures, topic-specific electronic resources, book reviews, and editorials on all aspects of intensive/critical/coronary care.