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BMJ calls for patient involvement to cut down on dodgy research practices and unreliable findings.
BMJ Editor's choice
Research is the future: get involved | The BMJ
Fiona Godlee
They focus on a particular study, first targeted by a journalist who'd spotted that long-term follow-up results hadn't been published. When they eventualluy were, the authors claimed success, but critiques in other journals disagreed:
The editorial looks at various ways of raising standards, but puts most emphasis on patient involvement:
read the full editorial (open access): Research is the future: get involved | The BMJ
BMJ Editor's choice
Research is the future: get involved | The BMJ
Fiona Godlee
They focus on a particular study, first targeted by a journalist who'd spotted that long-term follow-up results hadn't been published. When they eventualluy were, the authors claimed success, but critiques in other journals disagreed:
BMJ said:Now an editorial in The BMJ confirms the view that sentinel node biopsy confers no survival advantage except perhaps in a small minority of patients (doi:10.1136/bmj.h5940). “Any apparent benefit in disease-free survival is clearly a result of trial design and mislabelling of patients,”
The editorial looks at various ways of raising standards, but puts most emphasis on patient involvement:
The editorial points out that in response to the now-obligatory reporting in submissions to the BMJ of patient involvement as partners in research, the most common entry is, effectivey, "none".BMJ said:Clinical research, properly done and fully and openly reported, is essential to improving the care of patients...
More than three million NHS patients took part in research over the past five years. Bravo. Now let’s make sure that patients are properly involved, not just as participants but in trial conception, design, and conduct and the analysis, reporting, and dissemination of results.
Our plan is to shine a light on the current state of affairs and then gradually raise the bar. Working with other journals, research funders, and ethics committees, we hope that at some time in the future only research in which patients have been fully involved will be considered acceptable.
read the full editorial (open access): Research is the future: get involved | The BMJ
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