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. 2005 Aug 13;331(7513):401–403. doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7513.401

Table 1.

Comparison of reporting of harms and benefits of tissue donation in broadsheet and tabloid newspapers (n=122 articles)

No of articles (text character count)*
Category Tabloid Broadsheet Total
Direct harm 24 (17 365) 40 (16 195) 64 (33 560)
Benefit 20 (14 054) 56 (34 660) 76 (48 714)
System harm 14 (9081) 34 (20 377) 48 (29 458)
Total 36 (40 500) 86 (71 232) 122 (111 732)
*

Text characters were assigned to mutually exclusive categories (direct harm, benefit, system harm). Newspaper articles could contain text from more than one of these categories. The total number of articles shown in the last row of the table is therefore lower than the column totals.