The Importance of Quality Sites & Data

The Importance of Quality Sites & Data

“Studies show” doesn’t mean what it used to.

According to a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Tuesday, scientific studies aren’t as definitive as you might think. A team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine found that two scientists looking at the same clinical trial data (the information that determines what drugs get approved and recommended) may have contradictory interpretations of the results 35 percent of the time.

The finding comes from a survey of 37 clinical trials that had been analyzed more than once in the past 64 years. In 13 cases, the re-dos came to entirely different conclusions than the original study.

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