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Covid-19: Should doctors recommend treatments and vaccines when full data are not publicly available?

Authors :
Peter Doshi
Raymond M. Johnson
David Healy
Source :
BMJ
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
BMJ, 2020.

Abstract

With knowledge of covid-19 less than a year old, treatment remains fraught with uncertainty. Preprint data and adaptive clinical trials are imperfect but can guide active decision making in life-or-death situations, says Raymond M Johnson. But Peter Doshi and David Healy argue that doctors and professional societies should state that, without complete data transparency, they will not endorse covid-19 products as being based on science

Details

ISSN :
17561833
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
BMJ
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....a8a8494d2547a6550a20d2af87e1f16f
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3260