Hundreds of thousands of zombie randomised trials circulate among us

Anaesthesia. 2021 Apr;76(4):444-447. doi: 10.1111/anae.15297. Epub 2020 Oct 30.

Author

J P A Ioannidis¹

Affiliation

¹ Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Population Health, Biomedical Data Science, and Statistics Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

PMID: 33124075
DOI: 10.1111/anae.15297

No abstract available

Keywords: fabrication; individual patient data; randomised controlled trials; research misconduct; zombie.

Publication types

Editorial
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MeSH terms

Anesthesia*
Anesthesiology*
Humans
Scientific Misconduct*

Grants and funding

Laura and John Arnold Foundation