How to evaluate and interpret an article about therapy or therapeutic procedures

Independent of the thematic area and design employed, it was verified that between 40% and 60% of published studies in surgical scientific Journals are related with treatment or therapeutic procedures (IF) The aim of this manuscript is to present a synthesis of the key elements for proper writing, reading and assessment of articles related with treatment or TP, regardless of disciplinary area which has arisen in the investigation Who writes a manuscript relating to treatment or PT, or who read an article of this type should require at least a clear, accurate and concise objective, on the stage of the research being conducted, the explicit mention of the design used with the respective methodological details inherent in this, and the endorsement and implementation of statistical tools and measures of association, or at least the numbers needed to calculate these values