Gilbody, Simon M. and Song, Fujian (2000) Publication bias and the integrity of psychiatry research. Psychological Medicine, 30 (2). pp. 253-258. ISSN 0033-2917
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The cornerstone of evidence-based medicine is the belief that good quality research should form the basis of clinical practice and decision-making (Muir Gray, 1997). Psychiatry has kept abreast of this movement (Geddes et al. 1997) and claims have been made that randomized-controlled trials (the highest quality primary evaluative research) can be used to justify 65% of routine clinical decisions (Geddes et al. 1996). However, it is largely published research that forms the ‘knowledge base’ of the evidence movement. A fundamental difficulty arises when published research results are a biased sample of all research results – published and unpublished. Publication bias presents one such threat and has been much discussed in wider healthcare (Easterbrook et al. 1991; Dickersin & Min, 1993; Dickersin, 1997), but has been little discussed or researched in psychiatry, despite the fact that psychiatry is likely to be at least as prone to publication bias as other specialities.
Item Type: | Article |
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Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Epidemiology and Public Health Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Services and Primary Care Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Public Health and Health Services Research (former - to 2023) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Population Health |
Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2016 00:02 |
Last Modified: | 04 Apr 2024 00:42 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61583 |
DOI: | 10.1017/S0033291700001732 |
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