New guidance for reporting patient and public involvement in research
There is growing evidence for the benefits of patient and public involvement and engagement within research to ensure it’s asking the right… Read more »
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Ensuring Cochrane Reviews remain trusted, and trustworthy, evidence in an era of fake news
When it comes to health decisions, we want them to be informed by trustworthy, rigorous and reliable evidence. The current gold standard in providing… Read more »
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Quality of systematic reviews is variable: what guidelines are appropriate?
For systematic reviews to be considered a gold standard, it is vital that they are methodologically sound and well reported. To… Read more »
Improvement in publication bias following the 2007 FDA Amendment Act
With publication bias being a huge issue in medical literature, policies that set out to mitigate bias, such as the 2007 FDA… Read more »
How long does it take and what does it cost to prepare clinical trial data ready for sharing?
A new paper published today in Trials looks at how to prepare anonymized patient level data from a clinical trial to make… Read more »
Evidence-Based Endodontics invites submissions to two newly launched thematic series
Evidence-Based Endodontics welcomes submissions!
Inadequate methods and incomplete reporting lead to waste of research in Sub-Saharan Africa
A systematic review published today in Trials looks at 121 randomized control trials (RCTs) performed in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)… Read more »
Gestational diabetes – reducing the risk
In this blog we take a look at the gestational diabetes studies and clinical trials registered in the ISRCTN registry.
Tracking the unknown unknowns of trial registrations and their published results
Links between registration records of clinical trials and their published results are essential for assessing publication bias and… Read more »
Clinical trials in the twenty first century – highlights from ICTMC 2017
BioMed Central attended the 4th International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference (ICTMC) and the 38th Annual meeting for the… Read more »