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I met someone who worked on the admin side of NHS trials. They said exactly what you posted, anything noteworthy that happens should be reported. If you take th
by tikkabhuna 8y ago
I met someone who worked on the admin side of NHS trials. They said exactly what you posted, anything noteworthy that happens should be reported. If you take the placebo and get hit by a bus outside the hospital, it should be reported. That way if 10% of patients in the study get hit by a bus they have more data.
Obviously a silly example but if things aren't reported because they don't appear to be connected to the study, we don't have the data to analyse at a higher level.
- Mvandenbergh 8y agoSometimes participants in clinical trials are shot during the trial, that also gets reported.
- Nasrudith 8y agoThe funny thing is that such "irrelevant" data may hint at something real if it happens frequently enough. Like the whole Parkinson's medication with increases urge to gamble as a side effect. That sounds like somebody in a clinical trial making excuses at first glance.
- freehunter 8y agoExactly. If people taking a drug tend to get hit by a bus more frequently, it could actually indicate that the drug increases risky behavior, decreases peripheral vision, causes lapses in attention span, etc. It doesn't mean that getting hit by a bus is a side effect of the medicine, but rather getting hit by a bus is a potential outcome of one of the side effects of the medicine.