How to get all trials reported : audit, better data, and individual accountability

Journal article

In this week’s PLOS Medicine, the World Health Organization (WHO) publishes a landmark position statement, requiring all trials to make their methods and results available. This represents important progress on a long-standing and global structural problem that has a clear, negative impact on patient care. The best currently available evidence shows that the methods and results of clinical trials are routinely withheld from doctors, researchers, and patients, undermining our best ...

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Authors: Goldacre, B

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Not peer reviewed
• Publisher: Public Library of Science
• Journal: PLoS Medicine
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 4
• Publication date: 2015-04-14
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001821
• EISSN: 1549-1676
• ISSN: 1549-1277
• Language: English
• Keywords: medicine and health sciences; health care policy; clinical trials; data processing; clinical trial reporting; evidence-based medicine; medical doctors; decision making
• Subjects: Medical care