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This article talks about "zombie trials" as if it were known to the reader what exactly that means. Anyone who could clue me in?
by MauranKilom 5y ago
This article talks about "zombie trials" as if it were known to the reader what exactly that means. Anyone who could clue me in?
- danuker 5y agoFollowing the reference trail leads to this: > I categorised trials with false data as ‘zombie’ if I thought that the trial was fatally flawed. https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anae.15263 https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrar...
- nabla9 5y ago>I have chosen the word ‘zombie’ to indicate trials where false data were sufficient that I think the trial would have been retracted had the flaws been discovered after publication. The varied reasons for declaring data as false precluded a single threshold for declaring the falsification sufficient to deserve the name ‘zombie’, 1. Carlisle JB. False individual patient data and zombie randomised controlled trials submitted to Anaesthesia. Anaesthesia 2020; https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.15263 https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.15263.