ben goldacre

Ben Goldacre is heavily involved in this. Major investment to transform mental health treatment research and further develop secure NHS data platform Major investment to transform mental health treatment research and further develop secure NHS data platform — Nuffield Department of Primary...

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This much cited (over 1600 citations) study from 1978 claims to have proven the placebo effect is real. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/80579/

https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anae.15601?fbclid=IwAR22ywJ6ZJBVV9ZZ_Ag-T9ZPGka8RiNE8TpWFEOhrl_yZyU9hxkWgd97L-k This article claims that fMRI studies can demonstrate objective differences in patients experiencing the nocebo effect, what do you...

I was recently sent a free book from NIHR as a 'thank you' for the past work I had done for them as a patient rep. The book is entitled, 'Testing Treatments - Better Research for Better Healthcare' and is authored by Imogen Evans, Hazel Thornton, Iain Chalmers and Paul Glazziou. I haven't had...

Two papers published today on the same subject, first: COMPare: a prospective cohort study correcting and monitoring 58 misreported trials in real time Background Discrepancies between pre-specified and reported outcomes are an important source of bias in trials. Despite legislation...

I know Ben Goldacre hasn't exactly covered himself in glory in relation to PACE but he does nevertheless say some interesting things. At the beginning of this talk he presents an interesting proposal about how to get a cheap and easy randomised trial across general practice whenever there is...