Europe's clinical trial database criticized

Clinical Psychology Adversely Criticized

From visits to a number of clinics and other places where mental retardation or deficiency is receiving attention, from interviews with physicians and psychologists who are not working in the field, and from current journals and newspapers, criticisms have been gathered of clinical psychology in its present status. The adverse criticisms may be reduced to the following:?(1) Mental tests are bei...

EPA's PM2.5 program criticized.

Dictated versus database-generated discharge summaries: a randomized clinical trial.

BACKGROUND Hospital discharge summaries communicate information necessary for continuing patient care. They are most commonly generated by voice dictation and are often of poor quality. The objective of this study was to compare discharge summaries created by voice dictation with those generated from a clinical database. METHODS A randomized clinical trial was performed in which discharge sum...

Development of a unified clinical trial database for Alzheimer's disease.

INTRODUCTION Data obtained in completed Alzheimer's disease (AD) clinical trials can inform decision making for future trials. Recognizing the importance of sharing these data, the Coalition Against Major Diseases created an Online Data Repository for AD (CODR-AD) with the aim of supporting accelerated drug development. The aim of this study was to build an open access, standardized database fr...

Effort reporting: government drops much-criticized paperwork.