Study design synopsis: Survive the race – Time‐to‐event analysis

A pyramid needs a foundation: Exploding some myths about what EVJ's editors are looking for from authors?

“…EVJ has also recruited the assistance of its Statistical editors and members of its Study Design and Data Analysis board to produce material which we believe is of value to both authors seeking to publish clinical evidence and to enable readers to critically appraise clinical studies. Examples from recent issues include primers on the importance of sample size, 44 time‐to‐event analysis, 45 sources of bias in clinical research, 46 reporting guidelines, 47 Bayesian versus frequentist approaches to data analysis 48 and on how to conduct evidence synthesis 49 . While all this advice is intended to be helpful, have we gone too far?…”