Tag: side-effects and placebo
Lancet Editorial Points to “Trouble with Psychiatry Trials”
While clinical trials make up the ābedrock of evidence-based medicineā in other specialties, psychiatry faces a number of both ethical and scientific problems related to its use of randomized control trials. According to a new editorial in The Lancet Psychiatry, the field of psychiatry research has particular problems with ethical issues in recruitment, inaccurate classification systems, and controversial placebo comparisons, and then, once the studies are finished, it often remains unclear what the āoutcomes actually mean for peopleās lives.ā