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Table 6 Distribution of sentences describing interventions and comparisons with respect to the classes of pre-defined subheadings in primary RCT structured abstracts (R1).

From: Are decision trees a feasible knowledge representation to guide extraction of critical information from randomized controlled trial reports?

Heading Class

Number of Intervention Sentences

Method

197 (78%)

Intervention

19 (7.5%)

Aim

14 (5.5%)

Method and Results

12 (4.7%)

Design

8 (3.1%)

Results

2 (0.1%)

Background

1 (<0.1%)

Setting

1(<0.1%)