Unraveling the Bundles of Research Bias
Is What You Read the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth?
About this course
Erick Turner, MD, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Pharmacology at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland describes the kinds of bias which are impacting the publication and interpretation of research studies and subsequently, clinical practices guidelines.
Note: This lecture does not currently provide continuing education.
Course fee
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Your Instructor
Dr. Erick Turner is an associate professor of psychiatry at the Oregon Health & Science University, who previously spent a number of years working for the FDA. His work is aimed at increasing medical research transparency to make the evidence base more complete, truthful, and reliable. Motivated by his FDA experience, Dr. Turner and co-authors have published articles re-examining the efficacy of various psychotropic drug classes, the best known of these being a paper published a January 2008 article in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled “Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy”.