Healthy Skepticism Library item: 6844

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Publication type: Journal Article

Dieppe P, Chard J, Tallon D, Egger M.
Funding clinical research.
Lancet 1999 May 8; 353:(9164):1626

Abstract:

Industrial sponsorship of a study correlated positively with the likelihood of an outcome in favour of the sponsors’ treatment. The same trend holds true at the level of meta-analyses of clinical trials published in eight high-impact medical journals. Industrial funding of trials has undue influence on the research agenda and distorts the body of published evidence.

Keywords:
*letter to the editor/*analytic survey/clinical trials/ drug company sponsored research/ reporting of results/INFLUENCE OF PROMOTION: OUTCOME OF CLINICAL TRIALS/PROMOTION DISGUISED: CLINICAL TRIALS/SPONSORSHIP: RESEARCH Clinical Trials/economics* Clinical Trials/trends Drug Industry* Female Humans Public Policy Research Support/economics* Research Support/trends