Trial By Error: The Cochrane Controversy
…Cochrane’s Common Mental Disorders group. Last month, The Times and The BMJ covered the growing international concerns about the PACE trial. Both publications ran articles about Virology Blog’s most recent…
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Trial By Error: Cochrane Decides to Withdraw Flawed Exercise Review
…Times and The BMJ covered the growing international concerns about the PACE trial. Both publications ran articles about Virology Blog’s most recent open letter to The Lancet, which cited PACE’s…
Trial By Error: Three Years On…
…grasp that unblinded trials relying on self-reported outcomes, like PACE, are so fraught with bias as to be uninterpretable. That’s why clinical trials with this design are never used as…
Trial By Error: My 2011 Exchange with White et al about Case Definition
…our trial of treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome, published recently in The Lancet. That is not the case. The patients in this trial had a disabling chronic illness in which fatigue…
Trial By Error: Tack and I Write to Psych Medicine; Struthers Writes to Medical Research Council
…alone. The trial’s primary outcome was the mean score on the Work and Social Adjustment Scale (WSAS) at follow-up assessment 52 weeks post-randomization. The trial also included several secondary outcomes….
Trial By Error: Deja Vu All Over Again with Proposed Lightning Process Study in Norway
…a proposed LP trial until at least June. The trial has already been approved by a regional committee. The NEM had been expected to decide at its May meeting but…