The Fragility of Statistically Significant Randomized Controlled Trials in Plastic Surgery
Brian Chin; Andrea Copeland; Lucas Gallo; Scott Wakeham; Christopher J. Coroneos; Michael Walsh; Achilleas Thoma; Sophocles Voineskos · 2019 · Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
WASTE classifies this as Replication Failure · AI classification, approximate
A previously reported effect did not replicate here — verify it holds before you build on it.
Abstract (excerpt)
Background: The fragility index has been proposed as a metric to evaluate the robustness of statistically significant findings in randomized controlled trials. It measures the number of events that a trial result relies on to maintain…
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Metadata source: Crossref · DOI 10.1097/prs.0000000000006102