Making all clinical data public is vital for better medical care

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-11-02

Summary:

"An article published in the journal of the British Medical Association, BMJ, earlier this week illustrates a devastating problem with the 'evidence base' in the academic medical literature. A large proportion of drug trials, particularly those sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, never get published, skewing our picture of drugs' effectiveness and safety. But it’s not all bad news; a UK initiative called AllTrials is seeking to remedy the situation by calling for the results of all clinical trials to be published ..."

Link:

http://theconversation.com/making-all-clinical-data-public-is-vital-for-better-medical-care-19755

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.medicine oa.new oa.data oa.comment oa.advocacy oa.biomedicine oa.studies oa.alltrials oa.clinical_trials oa.pharma

Date tagged:

11/02/2013, 08:50

Date published:

11/02/2013, 04:50