"Public confidence in the credibility of medical research is at a low ebb."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23766484

BMJ. 2013 Jun 13;346:f3601. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f3601.

Restoring the integrity of the clinical trial evidence base.

Loder E, Godlee F, Barbour V, Winker M; VB and MW: on behalf of the PLOS Medicine editors.

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BMJ, London WC1H 9JR, UK.

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23766484

 

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"Public confidence in the credibility of medical research is at a low ebb.1 2 3 4Many completed clinical trials have never been published, and many published results are incomplete or misleading.5 6 7 This crisis of hidden or misreported information from clinical trials—and the resulting distortion of the clinical evidence base—is widely recognized and commonly decried.8 It is one of the leading scientific problems of our time, but few solutions have been put forward."