Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
What errors do peer reviewers detect, and does training improve their ability to detect them?
To analyse data from a trial and report the frequencies with which major and minor errors are detected at a general medical journal, the types of errors missed and the impact of training on error detection. ⋯ Editors should not assume that reviewers will detect most major errors, particularly those concerned with the context of study. Short training packages have only a slight impact on improving error detection.