1. The Growth of Clinical Trials and Systematic Reviews in Informing Dermatological Patient Care 
Hywel C. Williams, Robert P. Dellavalle 
Journal of Investigative Dermatology 
Volume 132, Issue 3, Pages (March 2012)
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2. Figure 1
Atopic dermatitis is a chronic disease in most sufferers, yet the majority of clinical trials have looked at short-term outcomes of ≤6 weeks (Hoareet al., 2000).
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3. Figure 2
Annual citations of meta-analyses in PubMed are growing at a rate almost three times faster than that of all publication types in PubMed.
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4. Figure 3
File drawers have become the final resting place for many studies with nonsignificant results.
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5. Figure 4
Research wastage can occur at several stages along the research development pathway.
Reproduced with permission from Chalmers and Glasziou (2009).
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