One Way To Fix Medicine - Publish Missing Trial Data
Sunday, January 22, 2012 - 20:10
in Health & Medicine
Should researchers be obligated to publish null results? Should they have to publish all trial data? Missing data distorts the scientific record, so that clinical decisions cannot be based on the best evidence, and that can harm patients and lead to futile costs to health systems, accoding to an editorial at BMJ.It's no secret that a large proportion of evidence from human trials is unreported, and much of what is reported is done so inadequately but there is no real accounting for the consequences of unpublished evidence. read more