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治疗高血压是早上吃降压药好还是晚上吃降压药好?
法匹拉韦对治疗COVID-19患者有用吗?
移动卫生技术对改善间歇性跛行患者的步行距离有用吗?
早期干预计划能改善早产儿的身心发育状况吗?
局部麻醉对早期妊娠手术流产的疼痛管理有效吗?
Use of red flags to screen for vertebral fractures in people with low back pain
哪些饮食或补充剂对预防和治疗压疮最为有效?它们是否会导致不良反应?
甲氨蝶呤治疗幼年特发性关节炎的益处和风险是什么?
非手术和手术治疗莫顿神经瘤(行走时前脚疼痛)的获益和风险是什么?
Hundreds of Nordic clinical trials remain unpublished
A new report jointly published by the AllTrials campaign, Cochrane Denmark, Cochrane Norway, Cochrane Sweden, the Dam Foundation, Melanomföreningen, and TranspariMED found that 475 clinical trials involving 83,903 patients completed during 2016-19 in Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden have never made their results public in any form. This accounted for 22% of all clinical trial results across the five countries.
In cases where clinical trial results were made public, there was often a delay in publication. The report found that only 27% of all trials results were made public, in either registries or in journals, within 12 months. Within two years of study completion, only around half of the results were available to the public.
Not only is this lack of transparency in clinical trials a waste of increasingly scarce public funding, it harms patients and leaves gaps in medical evidence. This makes it very difficult to determine how safe and effective treatments actually are.
Nordic countries have recently changed regulations that require institutions to make the results of drug and device trials public on registries within 12 months of completion. While clinical trials which ended in the years prior to 2023 are not included in this legislation, both the Declaration of Helsinki and World Health Organization have clearly stated for years that the timely public sharing of results is an ethical obligation.
Matteo Bruschettini, Director of Cochrane Sweden, who co-authored the report, said: “At Cochrane we highly value that findings of all studies become available. Otherwise, the synthesis of the evidence misses information thus resulting in misleading conclusions. This ultimately impacts the patients, clinicians and policy makers who need to make decisions based on a distorted picture of the evidence. This report should encourage initiatives to deal with this issue of medical research waste in the Nordic countries.”
The report calls for policy makers in Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden to adopt national legislation requiring that the results of all clinical trials are made public and to set up monitoring mechanisms. It also calls for national medicines regulators and research funders to put in structures to prevent research waste and ensure that clinical trial results are made public. This is in line with WHO recommendations which urged ethics committees, regulatory authorities, professional bodies, sponsors, investigators, and funding agencies to act in their jurisdictions to ensure results from all clinical trials are reported and publicly disclosed.
The report has already received attention in Swedish media.
Cochrane will continue to advocate for improved clinical trial transparency, and will monitor progress in these countries with interest.
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超声波检查对于诊断巨细胞动脉炎有多大用处?
成人生长激素型垂体腺瘤的手术和非手术治疗程序
调整膳食脂肪摄入量对胆结石患者有益的还是有害?
LipFlow比其他干眼症的治疗更有效吗?
Cochrane seeks Geographic Groups/Program Manager
Specifications: Permanent – Full Time
Salary: £42,000 per Annum
Location: (Remote – Flexible) UK, Germany, Denmark. Candidates anywhere from the world will be considered; however, Cochrane’s Central Executive Team is only able to offer consultancy contracts outside these countries.
Directorate: CEOO
Closing date: 18 February 2024
Cochrane is an international charity. For 30 years we have responded to the challenge of making vast amounts of research evidence useful for informing decisions about health. We do this by synthesising research findings and our work has been recognised as the international gold standard for high quality, trusted information.
Cochrane's strength is in its collaborative, global community. We have 110,000+ members and supporters around the world. Though we are spread out across the globe, our shared passion for health evidence unites us. Our Central Executive Team supports this work and is divided into four directorates: Evidence Production and Methods, Publishing and Technology, Development, and Finance and Corporate Services.
As a Manager within Cochrane’s Central Executive Team, you will support Cochrane’s Geographic Groups, Networks, and Fields, play a pivotal role in supporting sustainable development, coordinating activities, and enhancing accountability frameworks. This position focuses on fostering collaboration, overseeing communication, and promoting growth within Cochrane’s global networks.
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