Selective reporting in psychosocial trials new study

A new study by Sonia Lee, @openmylab , on bias in clinical trials of ME.

Acknowledgements: I dedicate this to ME Awareness Week 2017. I would like to thank ME 252 groups for your passionate advocacy and for sharing your stories with me. 253 It’s truly inspiring. Thank you.

http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/04/133926

 

Interesting methodology, though generalisability of the trial comparison seems limited with so few (and ironically risk of being cherrypicked) studies. If the trials included were selected in a broader (& still systematic) way (and substantially larger in number), we might have some more useful conclusions.

 

Yes, I would agree on the comparison of just two trials. I think the rest of the study has some more interesting and generalizable findings.

 

I agree the divergence over time of cellular vs psychosocial research articles is interesting.