01.22.09
Clinical trials: Unfavorable results often go unpublished
Clinical trials: Unfavorable results often go unpublished (Jennifer Beal, Eurek Alert, 01/20/09)
„Trials showing a positive treatment effect, or those with important or striking findings, were much more likely to be published in scientific journals than those with negative findings, a new review from The Cochrane Library has found.
“This publication bias has important implications for healthcare. Unless both positive and negative findings from clinical trials are made available, it is impossible to make a fair assessment of a drug’s safety and efficacy,” says lead researcher, Sally Hopewell of the UK Cochrane Centre in Oxford, UK.“ [read original article]