The PRIMER Collaboration
"Improving the presentation, interpretation and translation of medical research to aid the decision-making process"
The PRIMER Collaboration's aim is to improve the design of studies, their presentation (eg by 95% confidence intervals or confidence levels), interpretation of results and translation into practice (by both doctor and patient). We hope to achieve these goals through research, education and quality improvement activities.
In particular, we are pleased to announce the results of our two randomized studies, PRIMER 1 and PRIMER 2, which were designed to compare p values, 95% confidence intervals, and confidence levels in the presentation of research results. These groundbreaking studies are the first that investigate how doctors, journal readers, journal reviewers and researchers interpret studies, and how interpretation may be improved.
The 2 PRIMER randomized studies prove for the first time that using confidence levels is superior to using only 95% confidence intervals and p values when reporting study results.
