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Thursday, November 24, 2016

Sharing of Trial Results

It is interesting the number of drug trials that are not published. Clinical trials are the best way we have of testing whether a medicine is safe and effective. They can involve thousands of people, patients and healthy volunteers, and take years to complete, but trials with negative results are twice as likely to remain unreported as those with positive results. This means that patients and doctors don't have the full information about the benefits and risks of treatments. 
The link to the trials tracker, built by the Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab at University of Oxford is here: https://trialstracker.ebmdatalab.net/#/   


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