”For the public good, not for careers” - Iain Chalmers and Doug Altman on research waste
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Twenty years ago the statistician Doug Altman railed against, “The Scandal of Poor Medical Research,” in an editorial in The BMJ.
10 years later, Iain Chalmers and Paul Glaziou calculated that costs $170 billion annually in wasted research grants.
In this podcast, recorded at Evidence Live, we spoke to Altman and Chalmers about their campaigns to improve the design, conduct, and reporting of clinical trials, and why that level of waste still occurs.
Reward Alliance - http://rewardalliance.net/
Equator Network - http://www.equator-network.org/
Research publication audit "Getting our house in order" - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/3/e009285