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  • Format Audio, Texts
  • Target Audience Self-directed learning
  • EBM Stage 0 - Why EBM?
  • Duration <5 mins
  • Difficulty Introductory

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‘Few principles are more fundamental to the scientific and ethical validity of clinical research than that studies should address questions needing to be answered, and that they are designed in a way that will produce a meaningful answer.

A prerequisite for either of these goals is that relevant prior research be properly identified. . . . An incomplete picture of pre-existing evidence violates the implicit ethical contract with research participants that the information they provide is necessary and will be useful to others.’

Robinson KA, Goodman SN. A systematic examination of the citation of prior research in reports of randomized, controlled trials. Annals of Internal Medicine 2011:154:50-55.

Read more in:  Systematic reviews of all the relevant, reliable evidence.

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