Tolerating bad health research: the continuing scandal

Abstract Background At the 2015 REWARD/EQUATOR conference on research waste, the late Doug Altman revealed that his only regret about his 1994 BMJ paper ‘The scandal of poor medical research’ was that he used the word ‘poor’ rather than ‘bad’. But how much research is bad? And what would improve thi...

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Main Authors: Stefania Pirosca, Frances Shiely, Mike Clarke, Shaun Treweek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-06-01
Series:Trials
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06415-5