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List of works by Iain Chalmers

A European multi-language initiative to make the general population aware of independent clinical research: the European Communication on Research Awareness Need project

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A brief history of research synthesis

scientific article published on March 2002

A field guide to experts

scientific article published on December 2004

A new network to promote evidence-based research

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A surrealistic mega-analysis of redisorganization theories

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A surrealistic mega-analysis of redisorganization theories.

scientific article published on January 2006

A tapestry of Palestinian life: remembering Samar Alhallaq

scientific article published on 7 August 2014

Abstracts of the 2nd Clinical Trials Methodology Conference: Methodology Matters, 18-19 November 2013, Edinburgh, UK

article by Iain Chalmers published 18 November 2013 in Trials

Academic medicine: time for reinvention: MRC aims to give NHS evidence from randomised clinical trials

scientific article published in January 2004

Accumulating research: a systematic account of how cumulative meta-analyses would have provided knowledge, improved health, reduced harm and saved resources

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Acknowledging and researching treatment uncertainties in paediatric practice: an ethical imperative ⬇️

scientific article published on April 26, 2013

Adding fluoride to water supplies

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Addressing uncertainties about the effects of treatments offered to NHS patients: whose responsibility?

scientific article published in October 2007

Adrian Grant's pioneering use of evidence synthesis in perinatal medicine, 1980-1992.

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Alessandro Liberati: a personal appreciation

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Alexander Lesassier Hamilton's 1816 report of a controlled trial of bloodletting

scientific article published in February 2015

All trials must be registered and the results published

scientific article (publication date: 9 January 2013)

An open letter for the people in Gaza

scientific article published on 23 July 2014

Are any of the criticisms of the CNEP trial true?

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Are experimental treatments for cancer in children superior to established treatments? Observational study of randomised controlled trials by the Children's Oncology Group

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Assessing authority

scientific article published on May 2009

Assessing the quality of research

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Avoidable waste in the production and reporting of research evidence

scientific article published in December 2009

Better information systems are needed to help patients and clinicians integrate clinical research within everyday clinical practice

scientific article published on October 2007

Biased under-reporting of research reflects biased under-submission more than biased editorial rejection

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Biased underreporting of research is unethical and should be outlawed

scientific article published in January 2006

Bill Silverman: a personal appreciation

scientific article published in March 2005

Biomedical research: increasing value, reducing waste

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Britain's first minister of public health. National centre for public health is needed

scientific article published on July 1997

Can an educational podcast improve the ability of parents of primary school children to assess the reliability of claims made about the benefits and harms of treatments: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

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Challenges in evaluating surgical innovation

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Choosing treatments when the effect of alternatives is uncertain

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

Clinical trials in NZ: does anybody know what's going on?

scientific article published on 13 December 2002

Clinical trials should begin and end with systematic reviews of relevant evidence: 12 years and waiting

scientific article published in The Lancet

Commentary for history special issue of Research Synthesis Methods

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Commentary: The evolution of methods to assess the effects of treatments, illustrated by the development of treatments for diphtheria, 1825-1918.

scientific article published on 5 December 2011

Commentary: the 1944 patulin trial: the first properly controlled multicentre trial conducted under the aegis of the British Medical Research Council

scientific article published in April 2004

Consent in emergency care research – Authors' reply

Critical thinking in healthcare and education

scientific article published on 16 May 2017

Current Controlled Trials: an opportunity to help improve the quality of clinical research

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Data sharing among data monitoring committees and responsibilities to patients and science ⬇️

scientific article published on April 19, 2013

Dealing with the unknown: reducing the proportion of unvalidated treatments offered to children

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Descriptive survey of non-commercial randomised controlled trials in the United Kingdom, 1980-2002 ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

Discussion Sections in Reports of Controlled Trials Published in General Medical Journals ⬇️

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Discussion sections in reports of controlled trials published in general medical journals

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Documenting the evidence: the case of scurvy.

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Does the use of the Informed Healthcare Choices (IHC) primary school resources improve the ability of grade-5 children in Uganda to assess the trustworthiness of claims about the effects of treatments: protocol for a cluster-randomised trial

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Edmund Hey – a personal appreciation ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Educational interventions to improve people's understanding of key concepts in assessing the effects of health interventions: a systematic review

scientific article published on 2 May 2018

Educational interventions to improve people's understanding of key concepts in assessing the effects of health interventions: a systematic review protocol

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Effect of consent rituals on mortality in emergency care research

scientific article published in March 2011

Effects of the Informed Health Choices podcast on the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to assess claims about treatment effects: a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Effects of the Informed Health Choices primary school intervention on the ability of children in Uganda to assess the reliability of claims about treatment effects: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Erratum to: Patients', clinicians' and the research communities' priorities for treatment research: there is an important mismatch.

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Establishing a library of resources to help people understand key concepts in assessing treatment claims-The "Critical thinking and Appraisal Resource Library" (CARL)

scientific article published on 24 July 2017

Ethics review roulette: what can we learn?

scientific article published in January 2004

Explaining the unbiased creation of treatment comparison groups

scientific article published in November 2009

Fair tests of health-care policies and treatments: a request for help from readers

scientific article published in June 2009

Farewell and thanks to Dave Sackett, Cochrane's first pilot

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Fisher and Bradford Hill: theory and pragmatism?

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Focus on sharing individual patient data distracts from other ways of improving trial transparency

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For ethical, economic and scientific reasons, health-relevant degree theses must be made publicly accessible ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2012

From optimism to disillusion about commitment to transparency in the medico-industrial complex

scientific article published in July 2006

Gaza--a symptom of an insufficiently acknowledged cause

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Government regulation is needed to prevent biased under-reporting of clinical trials

scientific article published on August 2004

Harry Marks: an appreciation ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2011

Health Research Authority's great leap forward on UK trial registration

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

How to formulate research recommendations

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How to increase value and reduce waste when research priorities are set.

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Human rights and professional responsibilities in health care and education

scientific article published in February 2008

Incorporating patient preferences into clinical trials. Information about patients' preference must be obtained first

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Increasing the Incidence and Influence of Systematic Reviews on Health Policy and Practice.

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Increasing value and reducing waste in biomedical research regulation and management

scientific article (publication date: 11 January 2014)

Increasing value and reducing waste in biomedical research: who's listening?

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Intentional self-plagiarism

scientific article published in October 2009

Intervention synthesis: a missing link between a systematic review and practical treatment(s).

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Is the NHS willing to help clinicians and patients reduce uncertainties about the effects of treatments?

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J Guy Scadding and the move from alternation to randomisation

scientific article published in July 2016

Joseph Asbury Bell and the birth of randomized trials

scientific article published in June 2007

Key Concepts for Informed Health Choices: a framework for helping people learn how to assess treatment claims and make informed choices

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Key Concepts for assessing claims about treatment effects and making well-informed treatment choices

Key concepts that people need to understand to assess claims about treatment effects

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Lancet Steering Group on the occupied Palestinian territory

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Larger effect sizes in non-randomized studies are associated with higher rates of EMA licensing approval

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

Lessons for research ethics committees

scientific article published in The Lancet

Magnesium for preventing and treating eclampsia: time for international action

scientific article published in June 2002

Making randomised trials more efficient: report of the first meeting to discuss the Trial Forge platform

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

Measuring ability to assess claims about treatment effects: the development of the 'Claim Evaluation Tools'.

scientific article published on 17 May 2017

Medical journal editors and publication bias.

scientific article published on 22 October 2013

Medical research: Trial unpredictability yields predictable therapy gains

scientific article published on August 2013

Mis-investigating alleged research misconduct can cause widespread, unpredictable damage

scientific article published in April 2010

Misrepresentation of the National Women's Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand

scientific article published in July 2016

New treatments compared to established treatments in randomized trials

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New treatments compared to established treatments in randomized trials

scientific article (publication date: 18 April 2007)

No surgical innovation without evaluation: the IDEAL recommendations

scientific article published in September 2009

Open letter to President Obama on hunger strikers in Guantanamo ⬇️

scientific article published on June 19, 2013

Open letter: European Medicines Agency should remove barriers to access clinical trial data

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PRISMA for Abstracts: reporting systematic reviews in journal and conference abstracts

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Patients' research priorities get funded ⬇️

scientific article published on July 25, 2012

Patients', clinicians' and the research communities' priorities for treatment research: there is an important mismatch

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

Preventing scientific misconduct

scientific article published in August 2006

Provision of consent

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Raising the standards of clinical trials and research

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Recognizing, investigating and dealing with incomplete and biased reporting of clinical research: from Francis Bacon to the WHO ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

Reducing harm and maximizing benefit

Reports of clinical trials should begin and end with up-to-date systematic reviews of other relevant evidence: a status report

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Research ethics committees

scientific article published in February 1990

Research waste is still a scandal—an essay by Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Research: increasing value, reducing waste - Authors' reply

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Role of systematic reviews in detecting plagiarism: case of Asim Kurjak

scientific article published in September 2006

Secure use of individual patient data from clinical trials

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Seventy-five trials and eleven systematic reviews a day: how will we ever keep up?

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Should there be greater use of preprint servers for publishing reports of biomedical science?

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Support for UNRWA's survival

scientific article published in The Lancet

Support the opposition to force feeding of hunger strikers in Israel

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Survey of claims of no effect in abstracts of Cochrane reviews

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Systematic reviews and uncertainties about the effects of treatments ⬇️

scientific article published on May 12, 2010

TGN1412 and The Lancet's solicitation of reports of phase I trials

scientific article published in December 2006

Tackling treatment uncertainties together: the evolution of the James Lind Initiative, 2003–2013 ⬇️

scientific article published on July 3, 2013

Taking healthcare interventions from trial to practice

scientific article published on 13 August 2010

Testing transparency. Interview by Fiona Fleck

scientific article published in July 2013

Testing treatments interactive (TTi): helping to equip the public to promote better research for better health care

scientific article published on May 2015

The James Lind Initiative

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The James Lind Initiative: books, websites and databases to promote critical thinking about treatment claims, 2003 to 2018

The advent of fair treatment allocation schedules in clinical trials during the 19th and early 20th centuries

scientific article published in May 2012

The development of fair tests of treatments

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The origins, evolution, and future of The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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The quality of reports of medical and public health research from Palestinian institutions: a systematic review

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Towards evidence based research

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UK Medical Research Council and multicentre clinical trials: from a damning report to international recognition

scientific article published in December 2013

Under-reporting of clinical trials is unethical

scientific article published in March 2003

Use of research evidence in practice

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Well informed uncertainties about the effects of treatments

scientific article published in February 2004

What are funders doing to minimise waste in research?

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What are the implications of optimism bias in clinical research?

scientific article published in February 2006

When are randomised trials unnecessary? Picking signal from noise

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Why fair tests are needed: a brief history

scientific article published in June 2006

Why the GMC should set up a central registry of doctors' competing interests

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Why we need to know whether prophylactic antibiotics can reduce measles-related morbidity

scientific article published in February 2002

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