lancet-figures-tables
Use to build and check The Lancet's clinical display items — the Table 1 baseline characteristics, Kaplan–Meier curves with numbers at risk, forest plots for subgroups/meta-analyses, the CONSORT/study-flow diagram, and maps for multi-country studies — all with confidence intervals shown.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill lancet-figures-tables --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Clinical Figures & Tables (lancet-figures-tables) ## When to trigger - The manuscript lacks a Table 1, a flow diagram, or a survival/forest plot the design calls for. - Effect estimates are shown without confidence intervals. - Kaplan–Meier curves have no numbers-at-risk row. - A multi-country study has no map and the reader cannot see where the data came from. ## The standard Lancet clinical display items ### Table 1 — baseline characteristics - [ ] One column per arm/group (plus overall if helpful); rows = key demographic and clinical characteristics. - [ ] Report **n (%)** for categorical and **mean (SD)** or **median (IQR)** for continuous — matched to distribution. - [ ] Include the equity-relevant characteristics the study warrants (sex/gender, age, race/ethnicity where relevant, socioeconomic/PROGRESS-Plus factors) — coordinate with `lancet-ethics`. - [ ] **Do not** include P values comparing randomised arms at baseline (in an RCT, baseline imbalance is by chance) unless specifically justified. ### Kaplan–Meier curves (time-to-event) - [ ] Plot survival/cumulative-incidence by arm with a **numbers-at-risk** table beneath the x-axis at each time point. - [ ] Show the hazard
- When to trigger
- The standard Lancet clinical display items
- Table 1 — baseline characteristics
- Kaplan–Meier curves (time-to-event)
- Forest plots
- CONSORT / study-flow diagram
- Maps (multi-country / global-health studies)
- Cross-cutting specs
- What Lancet reviewers scan a display item for
- Worked micro-example (illustrative numbers — not real data)
- Reviewer-pushback patterns and the venue-specific fix
- Output format
- Anti-patterns
What does the lancet-figures-tables skill do?
Use to build and check The Lancet's clinical display items — the Table 1 baseline characteristics, Kaplan–Meier curves with numbers at risk, forest plots for subgroups/meta-analyses, the CONSORT/study-flow diagram, and maps for multi-country studies — all with confidence intervals shown.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill lancet-figures-tables --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.