Table 1.
Figures in Reports of Clinical Trials in Five Medical Journals during November 2006 to January 2007.
| Journal | No. of articles (total 77) |
| Annals of Internal Medicine | 7 |
| British Medical Journal | 16 |
| Journal of American Medical Association | 14 |
| Lancet | 12 |
| New England Journal of Medicine | 28 |
| No. of Figures in each article | |
| None | 1 |
| One | 23 |
| Two | 22 |
| Three | 19 |
| Four | 11 |
| Seven | 1 |
| Types of Figure in each article* | |
| Flow Diagram | 66 |
| Kaplan Meier plot | 32 |
| Forest plot | 21 |
| Repeated measures | 20 |
| Bar chart | 7 |
| Individual patient data | 3 |
| Box plot | 2 |
| Cumulative distribution | 1 |
*Some articles had one type of Figure several times. In this Table each type of Figure is only counted once per article.