Exploratory trials in mental health: anything to learn from other disciplines?

Exploratory trials in mental health: anything to learn from other disciplines?

OBJECTIVE Confirmatory randomised controlled trials require solid justifications, especially with regard to whether the experimental intervention is promising. Such evidence is generated in exploratory trials. However, empirical evidence shows that the quality of such trials is still suboptimal. More generally, the development process of healthcare interventions and especially of drugs, remains...

Health services research: is there anything to learn from mental health?

Success Factors for Software Experience Bases: What We Need to Learn from Other Disciplines

The interest for Software Experience Bases is rapidly growing as software companies recognize the need among software developers to share experiences with each other. This need is especially strong within large companies that are geographically spread out. However, there are several interesting questions connected to the implementation of software experience bases. Questions are for example: ho...

Do Exporters Have Anything to Learn from Foreign Multinationals?

Using recent data on propensity-score matched firms from the U.K manufacturing industry, the paper uncovers evidence that acquisition FDI is an important channel of direct technology transfer from foreign multinationals to domestic exporters. This is consistent with the recently developed theory by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2002) which, because of sunk costs, predicts firms engaged in FDI act...

Mitigating the epidemic of type I error: ecology and evolution can learn from other disciplines

SECTION In probabilistic disciplines from psychology to cancer biology and behavioral ecology, a disturbing quantity of empirically derived understanding has been challenged and found wanting (Begley and Ellis, 2012; Carpenter, 2012; Parker, 2013). Recently, it was reported that 47 of 53 “landmark” cancer studies from the past decade could not be reproduced (Begley and Ellis, 2012). Ongoing att...