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REEACT in the BMJ: Good science in action

January 20, 2016 - by Henry Drysdale 1 Comment

COMPare aims to fix the ongoing problem of outcome switching in clinical trials by assessing individual trials for misreported outcomes, openly sharing our results, and then submitting correction letters to the journals concerned. From the outset, the question on our minds was: how will the journals respond? We’ve now had a range of responses, from a range of journals, and one striking feature is the diversity of approaches to these reporting errors being pointed out. Here is an example of best practice, from the BMJ.

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How to cite us

Prior to publication of the first paper on COMPare, please cite this project as:

The COMPare Trials Project. Goldacre B, Drysdale H, Powell-Smith A, et al. www.COMPare-trials.org, 2016.

Or alternatively:

The COMPare Trials Project. Ben Goldacre, Henry Drysdale, Anna Powell-Smith, Aaron Dale, Ioan Milosevic, Eirion Slade, Philip Hartley, Cicely Marston, Kamal Mahtani, Carl Heneghan. www.COMPare-trials.org, 2016.

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