General medical journals compared with specialty journals. Column percentages in brackets
| Overdiagnosis | Overtreatment | Breast cancer mortality | Total mortality | Methods | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General | Special | p Value | General | Special | p Value | General | Special | p Value | General | Special | p Value | General | Special | p Value | |
| Accept | 7 (11%) | 3 (3%) | 0.05 | 7 (11%) | 1 (1%) | 0.01 | 4 (6%) | 2 (2%) | 0.20 | 6 (10%) | 0 | 0.00 | 9 (14%) | 1 (1%) | 0.00 |
| Neutral | 1 (2%) | 0 | 0.37 | 2 (3%) | 0 | 0.14 | 4 (6%) | 3 (3%) | 0.43 | 1 (2%) | 0 | 0.37 | 3 (5%) | 1 (1%) | 0.15 |
| Reject | 0 | 0 | 1.00 | 1 (2%) | 4 (4%) | 0.65 | 5 (8%) | 28 (26%) | 0.02 | 3 (5%) | 6 (6%) | 1.00 | 10 (16%) | 19 (17%) | 1.00 |
| Unclear | 2 (3%) | 10 (9%) | 0.22 | 4 (6%) | 11 (10%) | 0.58 | 12 (19%) | 23 (21%) | 0.85 | 9 (14%) | 19 (18%) | 0.68 | 10 (16%) | 13 (12%) | 0.65 |
| Not applicable | 53 (84%) | 95 (88%) | 0.91 | 49 (78%) | 92 (85%) | 0.72 | 38 (60%) | 53 (49%) | 0.43 | 44 (70%) | 83 (77%) | 0.72 | 31 (49%) | 74 (69%) | 0.24 |
Two-tailed p values are used.