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Clinical trials could not end uninformatively

By Hicbd
Tue Feb 28 2023 11:58 am

"A recent study of U.S. clinical trials related to heart disease, diabetes, and lung cancer found that only 26% ended informatively. To put it bluntly: Three out of four were a waste of time and money. How is it possible that the vast majority of these trials don’t answer the question they set out to investigate? One reason that some trials yield no useful findings is that the people who run them, while experts in their fields, aren’t necessarily experts at designing trials, analyzing the results, and communicating the findings. The Gates Foundation has launched a program called Design, Analyze, Communicate (DAC) to understand this challenge and begin to address it."

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https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles/deworm3-clinical-trials-show-the-value-of-informed-research
https://dac-trials.tghn.org/
https://research.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/61/2019/10/Harms-from-uninformative-clinical-trials-Zarin_JAMA_2019.pdf

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Research Universities / College Medical / Health Research Global Health U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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