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Drummond Rennie, MD

JAMA. 2001;285:2006-2007.

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If physicians are to base treatment decisions on the evidence in the medical literature, all the relevant results of trials must be available easily and consistently. Yet it is common to have trouble identifying the hypothesis, the research question, and the design of a published trial. It is even more common to lose count of the participants or to be unable to tell who received what therapies and the type of analysis used. As a result, it is often impossible to know whether the conclusions are justified by the data.

In February 1995, Schulz and colleagues¹ published an important article that drew attention to this sad state of affairs and to the importance of complete reporting of clinical trials if bias was to be avoided. At that time 2 groups, responding to the widespread perception that reporting of study results was highly variable, had held meetings to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: Dr Rennie is Deputy Editor, JAMA.

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