Amissing link worth mentioning is whether doctors take the same
decisions when they read trial reports as they would had they seen those
same patients in real life. In other words is there a framing effect which
results in an unrealistic set of diganostic or therapeutic responses after
reading a trial report. A difficult one to establish experimentally but our
study using vignettes suggested there was no clinically important
difference.Chaput de Saintonge DM, Evans SJW, Crane GJ, Kirwan JR.
Clinical trials and clinical practice: do doctors use the same criteria to
judge outcome? British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 1997; 44:583-586.
Mark
D. Mark Chaput de Saintonge
Clinical Skills Centre
The Robin Brook Centre
St Bartholomew's Hospital
West Smithfield
London EC1A 7BE
Telephone 0171 601 8812
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