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Featured article: Are clinical drug trials more marketing
than science?
Analysis of trial documentation has revealed that some industry-funded trials may be done more
for marketing purposes than scientific endeavour. Confidential internal company documents
have revealed drug trials designed, or heavily influenced by, the marketing departments of
pharmaceutical companies.
In this study, Barbour et al. examined reports of randomised controlled trials of drugs published
published in 2011 in the top six general medical journals, based on Impact Factor, revealing that
a fifth of drug trials had features that were suggestive of being designed for marketing purposes
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Trials is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that encompasses all aspects of the performance
and findings of randomized controlled trials in health. Trials encourages full and transparent
reporting of all research. We publish articles on general trial methodology as well as protocols,
commentaries and traditional results papers - regardless of outcome or significance of findings.
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Doug Altman graduated in statistics from the University of Bath and has worked for the Medical
Research Council as a statistical consultant in a wide variety of medical areas. In 1988 he
became head of the newly formed Medical Statistics Laboratory (now Medical Statistics Group)
at ICRF (now Cancer Research UK), and in 1995 also became founding director of the Centre
for Statistics in Medicine in Oxford. In 1997, Professor Altman received the Bradford Hill Medal
for his contributions to medical statistics and a DSc from the University of London, and in 1998
was made Professor of Statistics in Medicine by the University of Oxford. His varied research
interests include the use and abuse of statistics in medical research, studies of prognosis,
regression modelling, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, randomised trials, and studies of
medical measurement.
Jeremy Grimshaw is the Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Health
Research Institute and the Director of the Center for Best Practice at the University of Ottawa.
He holds a Tier 1 Canadian Research Chair in health knowledge transfer and uptake and was
made a Professor of Medicine by the University of Ottawa. Prior to this, he held a Personal Chair
in health services research at the University of Aberdeen and was the Program Director of the
Effective Professional Program within health services research, one of the largest
implementation research programs within the UK. Professor Grimshaw’s research interests are in
knowledge translation,quality improvement,complex interventions. systematic reviews, cluster
randomized trials, quasi experimental studies and behavioural theories (and their application to
professional behaviour).
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