Norman Swann

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Health Report · Monday 08 February 2010 · 7 Feb 2010 podcast

amongst the most basic of things. voice-verified

What are you actually trying to study? voice-verified

And the majority, up to 60%, don't voice-verified

Another area of controversy is where they say, look, if you look at it overall, the average person didn't respond. voice-verified

But, you know, if you had blue eyes and green hair, you responded strongly. voice-verified

It was what they call subgroup analysis. voice-verified

And people go to war over voice-verified

earlier, when you say trial protocol, this is the trial plan. voice-verified

So when people submit their trial, say for ethics approval or something like that, this is what they're going to do, this is how they're going to do it, these are the people they're going to recruit, and these are their intentions of the trial. voice-verified

other thing about clinical trials is that you're blinded. voice-verified

So if you're involved in the trial, you don't know whether somebody's getting the treatment or the placebo. voice-verified

To what extent is that blinding process reported adequately? voice-verified

In other words, how they kept the information about what somebody was on away from the person involved in the trial or doing the analysis? voice-verified

What voice-verified

editors doing, publishing papers where these things are inadequately reported? voice-verified

They must know, and you send it out for review to experts who look at these things. voice-verified

You're looking at published papers where there's only a minority which fulfil all the criteria that you'd want to know for a reliable trial. voice-verified

for treatments that are going to go into the clinic and be used on you and me. voice-verified

Why aren't journal editors and peer reviewers making sure about this? voice-verified

People listening to us talking have not got a degree in clinical epidemiology or biostatistics. voice-verified

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