Avoidable waste of research related to outcome planning and reporting in clinical trials.

Youri YordanovAgnes DechartresIgnacio AtalViet-Thi TranIsabelle BoutronPerrine CrequitPhilippe Ravaud

Published in: BMC medicine (2018)

Most of the RCTs included in our sample did not contribute to all the important outcomes in meta-analyses, mostly because of inadequate planning or incomplete reporting. A large part of this waste of research seemed to be avoidable.

Keyphrases

meta analyses
clinical trial
adverse drug
heavy metals
systematic review
sewage sludge
municipal solid waste
randomized controlled trial
type diabetes
risk assessment
study protocol
drug induced
double blind
placebo controlled