1-7 利益相反に気を付けること

収入を得るなど、治療を主張することに関心のある人(そのような人を支援したい人も)は、利益を誇張し、有害な作用の可能性を無視して治療を主張するかもしれません。反対に、文化的な慣例などさまざまな理由で治療に反対する人もいます。

治療が有効であることを主張する人には、利益相反があるかどうか尋ねましょう。利益相反がある場合、治療効果についての彼らの主張に惑わされないよう気を付けてください。

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Know Your Chances

This book has been shown in two randomized trials to improve peoples' understanding of risk in the context of health care choices.

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Bias

A University of Massachusetts Medical School text on biases.

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Weasels Are on the Loose

Weaseling is the use of certain words to weaken a claim, so that the author can say something without actually saying it and avoid criticism

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Does it work?

People with vested interests may use misleading statistics to support claims about the efects of new treatments.

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Peer-Review

Even quality control steps, such as peer-review, can be affected by conflicts of interest.

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Dodgy, devious and duped?

Writing a light-hearted article for a Christmas edition of the British Medical Journal, two researchers created a spoof company called […]

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Marketing-based medicine

‘Internal documents from the pharmaceutical industry suggest that the publicly available evidence base may not accurately represent the underlying data […]

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Believing is seeing

The British doctor Richard Asher noted in one of his essays for doctors: ‘If you can believe fervently in your […]

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The Screening Circus

In 2009, a recently retired professor of neurology with a long-standing interest in stroke prevention learnt that neighbours had received […]

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Avandia

2010 saw another drug – rosiglitazone, better known by the trade name Avandia – hitting the headlines because of unwanted […]

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Vioxx

Although drug-testing regulations have been tightened up considerably, even with the very best drug-testing practices there can be no absolute […]

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