tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14743001.post4512614676779538173..comments2024-01-02T02:45:17.328-06:00Comments on Notes from Dr. RW: Comparative effectiveness research and the problem of rigged designRobert W Donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16944231400440786271noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14743001.post-70200289901935863312009-11-20T00:41:13.976-06:002009-11-20T00:41:13.976-06:00Many institutions limit access to their online inf...Many institutions limit access to their online information. Making this information available will be an asset to all.Paper on Researchhttp://www.researchpaperspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14743001.post-26393562981711669572009-04-11T22:07:00.000-05:002009-04-11T22:07:00.000-05:00Couldn't a journal reviewer insist that if a trial...Couldn't a journal reviewer insist that if a trial had been completed using what is thought, in the literature, to be a sub-optimal dose of a drug, that the trial be continued using a more optimal dosage?<BR/><BR/><BR/>Maybe the problem is that journals have no incentive to say "no", and ask for more work to be done in an (expensive and otherwise well-done) study? Lots of good but flawed studies Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14743001.post-66984275037579550452009-04-07T19:38:00.000-05:002009-04-07T19:38:00.000-05:00To think that government funded or managed compara...To think that government funded or managed comparative effectiveness research will automatically be free of biases is to ignore not only the many obvious and some not so obvious ways to stack the analysis but also to ignore the history of the many ways that special interests influence the activities of government organizations. Thanks for another great posting.james gaultehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537303135780186926noreply@blogger.com