Randomized controlled trials published on patients with hernias have a high percentage of unreproducible statistics.
Naila H DhananiOscar A OlavarriaCynthia S BellJulie L HolihanMike K LiangPublished in: Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery (2021)
Eight percent of the RCTs analyzed in this study reported p-values < 0.05 that on reproduction analysis was ≥ 0.05. The next steps should be to determine reasons for discordance and how to prevent this from happening.