News tagged with trial outcome

Drug trials funded by industry are more likely to publish favorable results

When published results are systematically tracked for drug trials registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, those from industry-funded trials are the likeliest to be favorable to the drug in question, report researchers at Children's ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Neuroscientists identify physiological link between trial and error and learning

Learning through trial and error often requires subjects to establish new physiological links by using information about trial outcome to strengthen correct responses or modify incorrect responses. New findings, which appear ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Many recommendations within practice guidelines not supported by high-quality evidence

More than half of the recommendations in current practice guidelines for infectious disease specialists are based on opinions from experts rather than on evidence from clinical trials, according to a report in the January ...

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created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0