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A New Mechanism To Identify Cost Savings in NHS Prescribing: Minimising 'Price-Per-Unit'

scientific article

A cross-sectional study of all clinicians' conflict of interest disclosures to NHS hospital employers in England 2015-2016.

scientific article

All BMJ research papers should share their analytic code

scientific article

Antivirals, pandemic planning, and failure to heed calls for trial data

scientific article published on 22 October 2015

Are clinical trial data shared sufficiently today? No.

scientific article

Association between living with children and outcomes from covid-19: OpenSAFELY cohort study of 12 million adults in England

scientific article published on 18 March 2021

Atypical antipsychotic augmentation in SSRI treatment refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Author Correction: Variation in diagnostic test requests and outcomes: a preliminary metric for OpenPathology.net.

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Authors' reply to Aiyenigba and Weeks, Bahadur and colleagues, and Griffin and colleagues

scientific article published on 14 February 2017

Authors' reply to Beales

scientific article published on 7 March 2017

Bad Pharma ⬇️

written work by Ben Goldacre

Bad Pharma

paperback edition (en)

Bad Science

2008 non-fiction work by Ben Goldacre

Bad Science

2008 edition

Barriers to Working With National Health Service England's Open Data

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

Behold the Christmas miracle of antioxidants

scientific article

Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science

TEDGlobal 2011

Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe

2012 video of a TEDMED 2012 talk

Benefits and harms of pregabalin in the management of neuropathic pain: a rapid review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials

scientific article published on 21 January 2019

Benefits and risks of homoeopathy

scientific article

Beware of mentioning psychosocial factors

scientific article

Bicycle helmets and the law.

scientific article published on 12 June 2013

Big Bad Ben.

scientific article published in February 2015

Big health data: the need to earn public trust

scientific article

COMPare: Qualitative analysis of researchers’ responses to critical correspondence on a cohort of 58 misreported trials

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

COMPare: a prospective cohort study correcting and monitoring 58 misreported trials in real time

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Cancer Drugs Fund requires further reform

scientific article

Cardiovascular outcome trials of glucose-lowering strategies in type 2 diabetes

scientific article published in The Lancet

Catalogue of bias: publication bias

scientific article published on 06 December 2018

Claims for fertility interventions: a systematic assessment of statements on UK fertility centre websites

scientific article

Commentary on Berlin et al.

scientific article published on February 2014

Commentary: Randomized trials of controversial social interventions: slow progress in 50 years

scientific article published on February 2015

Compliance with legal requirement to report clinical trial results on ClinicalTrials.gov: a cohort study

scientific article published on 17 January 2020

Compliance with requirement to report results on the EU Clinical Trials Register: cohort study and web resource

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Detecting change in comparison to peers in NHS prescribing data: a novel application of cumulative sum methodology

Discrepancies Between Prespecified and Reported Outcomes.

scientific article

Do doctors in dispensing practices with a financial conflict of interest prescribe more expensive drugs? A cross-sectional analysis of English primary care prescribing data

scientific article published on 05 February 2019

Effectiveness of an internet-delivered handwashing intervention.

scientific article

Epidemiology--a science for the people

scientific article published on April 2013

Evidence based medicine manifesto for better healthcare

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Evidence based medicine manifesto for better healthcare: A response to systematic bias, wastage, error and fraud in research underpinning patient care

scientific article published on 18 July 2017

Evidence on industry influence should be in the core medical curriculum

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

Expectant management in pregnancies with ruptured membranes

scientific article published on 01 May 2016

FDAAA TrialsTracker: A live informatics tool to monitor compliance with FDA requirements to report clinical trial results

scholarly article published 16 February 2018

Factors associated with the prescribing of high-dose opioids in primary care: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

Fixing flaws in science must be professionalized

scientific article published on 3 July 2015

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

scientific article

Functional heterogeneity of left inferior frontal cortex as revealed by fMRI

scientific article (publication date: 27 May 1997)

Funding source and primary outcome changes in clinical trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov are associated with the reporting of a statistically significant primary outcome: a cross-sectional study

scientific article

Getting our house in order: an audit of the registration and publication of clinical trials supported by the National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and the Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit

scientific article published on 2 March 2016

Given the choice, I'd have the miracle pill story.

scientific article

Guidelines for collaboration with industry should be transparent

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Harnessing value of dispersed critiques ⬇️

scientific article published on February 10, 2011

High reprint orders in medical journals and pharmaceutical industry funding: case-control study

scientific article (publication date: 28 June 2012)

How doctors can get behind the headlines

scientific article

How medicine is broken, and how we can fix it

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

How to get all trials reported: audit, better data, and individual accountability

scientific article

Identifying patterns of clinical interest in clinicians’ treatment preferences: a hypothesis-free data science approach to prioritising prescribing outliers for clinical review (Preprint)

scientific article published in 2022

Impact of Chief Medical Officer activity on prescribing of antibiotics in England: an interrupted time series analysis

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Impact of Electronic Health Record Interface Design on Unsafe Prescribing of Ciclosporin, Tacrolimus, and Diltiazem: Cohort Study in English National Health Service Primary Care

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Impact of NICE guidance on tamoxifen prescribing in England 2011-2017: an interrupted time series analysis

scientific article published on 23 April 2018

Impact of statin related media coverage on use of statins: interrupted time series analysis with UK primary care data

scientific article

Improving, and auditing, access to clinical trial results

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Interpretive bias in acupuncture research?: A case study

scientific article published in December 2009

Is the conflict of interest unacceptable when drug companies conduct trials on their own drugs? Yes.

scientific article published on 27 November 2009

Is use of homeopathy associated with poor prescribing in English primary care? A cross-sectional study

research article from 2018

Journalists: anything to declare?

scientific article

Lack of evidence for interventions offered in UK fertility centres

scientific article published on 27 November 2016

Make journals report clinical trials properly

scientific article

Mass treatment with statins

scientific article published on 22 July 2014

Measuring the Impact of an Open Online Prescribing Data Analysis Service on Clinical Practice: a Cohort Study in NHS England Data

article

Measuring the Impact of an Open Online Prescribing Data Analysis Service on Clinical Practice: a Cohort Study in NHS England Data (Preprint)

Measuring the Impact of an Open Online Prescribing Data Analysis Service on Clinical Practice: a Cohort Study in NHS England Data (Preprint)

scientific article published on 16 January 2019

Media misinformation and health behaviours

article

Medicine and the media: MMR: the scare stories are back

scientific article

Meta-analysis of side effects of statins shows need for trial transparency

scientific article published on 29 April 2014

NICE must do better at summarising and communicating evidence on statins

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Nanoliposomal irinotecan in metastatic pancreatic cancer.

scientific article

New mechanism to identify cost savings in English NHS prescribing: minimising 'price per unit', a cross-sectional study.

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Noncommercial Funders' Policies on Trial Registration, Access to Summary Results, and Individual Patient Data Availability

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

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

scientific article

OpenPrescribing: normalised data and software tool to research trends in English NHS primary care prescribing 1998-2016.

scientific article published on 23 February 2018

OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19 death in 17 million patients

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 million adult NHS patients.

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

OpenTrials: towards a collaborative open database of all available information on all clinical trials

scientific article

Opioid prescribing trends and geographical variation in England, 1998-2018: a retrospective database study

scientific article published on 20 December 2018

Outcomes in the EXAMINATION trial

scientific article published in May 2016

Outcomes in the trial registry should match those in the protocol

scientific article published in July 2016

PATHWAY-2: spironolactone for resistant hypertension.

scientific article

Personalised Medicine Using N-of-1 Trials: Overcoming Barriers to Delivery

scientific article published on 05 November 2019

Pharmaceutical companies' policies on access to trial data, results, and methods: audit study

scientific article

Post all press releases online, and give them named authors

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Practice variation in the use of tests in UK primary care: a retrospective analysis of 16 million tests performed over 3.3 million patient years in 2015/16

Pragmatic randomised trials using routine electronic health records: putting them to the test

scientific article

Prediction of cardiovascular risk using Framingham, ASSIGN and QRISK2: how well do they predict individual rather than population risk?

scientific article

Pregabalin: what the patent litigation means for doctors and drug companies

scientific article published on 07 June 2018

Prescribing biosimilars

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Prescription data for open toe sandals syndrome

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

Prevalence of clinical trial status discrepancies: A cross-sectional study of 10,492 trials registered on both ClinicalTrials.gov and the European Union Clinical Trials Register.

scientific article published on 7 March 2018

Prevalence of primary outcome changes in clinical trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov: a cross-sectional study

scientific article

Preventing bad reporting on health research

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Problems with ABPI proposals to release data on payments to doctors

scientific article published on 5 February 2014

Problems with ethical approval and how to fix them: lessons from three trials in rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article (publication date: 9 September 2016)

Randomised Evaluations of Accepted Choices in Treatment (REACT) trials: large-scale pragmatic trials within databases of routinely collected electronic healthcare records.

scientific article

Reply to Comment on 'Impact of NICE guidance on tamoxifen prescribing in England 2011-2017: an interrupted time series analysis"

scientific article published on 21 August 2018

Reported Outcomes of the Alexander Technique Lessons or Acupuncture Sessions for Persons With Chronic Neck Pain Article

Rethinking the appraisal and approval of drugs for type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on 09 October 2015

Six months on: NHS England needs to focus on dissemination, implementation and audit of its low-priority initiative

scientific article published on 03 December 2018

Study protocol for statin web-based investigation of side effects (StatinWISE): a series of randomised controlled N-of-1 trials comparing atorvastatin and placebo in UK primary care

scientific article published in December 2017

Survival analysis of irish amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients diagnosed from 1995-2010.

scientific article

Tell us the truth about nutritionists.

scientific article published in February 2007

Temporal trends in use of tests in UK primary care, 2000-15: retrospective analysis of 250 million tests

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Text messaging reminders for influenza vaccine in primary care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (TXT4FLUJAB)

scientific article

The CONFIDeNT trial

scientific article published in The Lancet

The PRINTO juvenile dermatomyositis trial

scientific article published on 01 June 2016

The TrialsTracker: Automated ongoing monitoring of failure to share clinical trial results by all major companies and research institutions

scientific article

The WHO joint statement from funders on trials transparency

scientific article published on 19 June 2017

The clinician impact and financial cost to the NHS of litigation over pregabalin: a cohort study in English primary care

The clinician impact and financial cost to the NHS of litigation over pregabalin: a cohort study in English primary care.

scientific article published on 7 June 2018

The efficiency of cardiovascular risk assessment: do the right patients get statin treatment?

scientific article published on 04 June 2013

The opportunities and challenges of pragmatic point-of-care randomised trials using routinely collected electronic records: evaluations of two exemplar trials

scientific article

The poor performance of apps assessing skin cancer risk

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

The quality of the evidence for dietary advice given in UK national newspapers

scientific article published on 11 April 2011

Time trends and geographical variation in prescribing of antibiotics in England 1998-2017

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Time trends and geographical variation in prescribing of drugs for diabetes in England from 1998 to 2017

article

Too few trials or too few reported trials?

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Transparency of the UK medicines regulator: auditing freedom of information requests and reasons for refusal

article

Transvaginal mesh failure: lessons for regulation of implantable devices

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Trends and variation in Prescribing of Low-Priority Medicines Identified by NHS England: A Cross-Sectional Study and Interactive Data Tool in English Primary Care

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Trends and variation in prescribing of low-priority treatments identified by NHS England: a cross-sectional study and interactive data tool in English primary care.

scientific article

Trends, geographic variation, and factors associated with prescribing of gluten-free foods in English primary care: a cross sectional study

Trends, geographical variation and factors associated with prescribing of gluten-free foods in English primary care: a cross-sectional study.

scientific article

Trials of transvaginal mesh devices for pelvic organ prolapse: a systematic database review of the US FDA approval process

scientific article published on 6 December 2017

Variation in diagnostic test requests and outcomes: a preliminary metric for OpenPathology.net.

scientific article

Variation in responsiveness to warranted behaviour change among NHS clinicians: novel implementation of change detection methods in longitudinal prescribing data

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Waning effectiveness of BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 covid-19 vaccines over six months since second dose: OpenSAFELY cohort study using linked electronic health records

We should push for evidence based sentencing in criminal justice

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

What proportion of symptomatic side effects in patients taking statins are genuinely caused by the drug? Systematic review of randomized placebo-controlled trials to aid individual patient choice

scientific article

Who Owns the Data? Open Data for Healthcare

scientific article

Why Cochrane should prioritise sharing data

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Why clinical trial outcomes fail to translate into benefits for patients

scientific article published on 14 March 2017

Why did some practices not implement new antibiotic prescribing guidelines on urinary tract infection? A cohort study and survey in NHS England primary care

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Why did some practices not implement new antibiotic prescribing guidelines on urinary tract infection? A cohort study and survey in NHS England primary care

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Why don't journalists mention the data?

scientific article published in June 2007

Why researchers should share their analytic code

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

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

scientific article

You can now search FDA approval documents easily at fda.opentrials.net

scientific article published on 08 February 2017

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