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<blockquote data-quote="Dark Horse" data-source="post: 1557202" data-attributes="member: 52527"><p>You may be interested by the Alltrials petition, <a href="http://www.alltrials.net/find-out-more/why-this-matters/the-alltrials-campaign/" target="_blank">http://www.alltrials.net/find-out-more/why-this-matters/the-alltrials-campaign/</a></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><em>The AllTrials campaign</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Doctors and regulators need the results of clinical trials to make informed decisions about treatments.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>But companies and researchers can withhold the results of clinical trials even when asked for them. The best available evidence shows that about half of all clinical trials have never been published, and trials with negative results about a treatment are much more likely to be brushed under the carpet [1].</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>This is a serious problem for evidence based medicine because we need all the evidence about a treatment to understand its risks and benefits. If you tossed a coin 50 times, but only shared the outcome when it came up heads and you didn’t tell people how many times you had tossed it, you could make it look as if your coin always came up heads. This is very similar to the absurd situation that we permit in medicine, a situation that distorts the evidence and exposes patients to unnecessary risk that the wrong treatment may be prescribed.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dark Horse, post: 1557202, member: 52527"] You may be interested by the Alltrials petition, [URL]http://www.alltrials.net/find-out-more/why-this-matters/the-alltrials-campaign/[/URL] [INDENT][SIZE=4][B][I]The AllTrials campaign[/I][/B][/SIZE] [I]Doctors and regulators need the results of clinical trials to make informed decisions about treatments. But companies and researchers can withhold the results of clinical trials even when asked for them. The best available evidence shows that about half of all clinical trials have never been published, and trials with negative results about a treatment are much more likely to be brushed under the carpet [1]. This is a serious problem for evidence based medicine because we need all the evidence about a treatment to understand its risks and benefits. If you tossed a coin 50 times, but only shared the outcome when it came up heads and you didn’t tell people how many times you had tossed it, you could make it look as if your coin always came up heads. This is very similar to the absurd situation that we permit in medicine, a situation that distorts the evidence and exposes patients to unnecessary risk that the wrong treatment may be prescribed.[/I][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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