‘Tricks to help you get the result you want from your study (S4BE)

Format: Malti

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Language/s: 3-5 How certain is the evidence?

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Resource Link: Visit the Website

Target Audience: 3-2 Are you very different from the people studied?

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3-1 Do the outcomes measured matter to you?

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Short Description:

Inspired by a chapter in Ben Goldacre’s ‘Bad Science’, medical student Sam Marks shows you how to fiddle research results.

Key Concepts addressed:

• čeština
• dansk
• Greek
• italiano
• 1-11 Explanations about how treatments work can be wrong
• 1-4 Common practice is not always evidence-based

Details

I thought about giving this blog a more sensible title. Something like “things to look out for when reading a paper on a clinical trial”. But, I needed to get your attention, didn’t I….

Let’s set the scene: An increasing number of clinical trials are funded by the pharmaceutical industry.

But this is clearly problematic. In 2012, a Cochrane Review including 49 studies, found that industry-sponsored studies testing drugs and medical devices more often favour the sponsor’s products than non-industry sponsored studies. Read more