POPM 3240 Lecture Notes - Data Extraction, Blind Experiment, Systematic Review
2 Jul 2013
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Lecture 29: development of reflect methodological soundness in animal studies. Failure to follow details and include randomization/blinding in a study leads to an exaggeration of results. There is a potential for bias in treatment effects if method quality is questionable and reporting is incomplete. Both human and veterinary medicine lack methodological soundness. Consort (consolidated standards of reporting trials) is a set of agreed upon standards for reporting in clinical trial results. It is a 22 item checklist of things that need to be reported or done before publishing in a journal. Consort cannot be used in veterinary medicine because. Participants could be in two categories: owner or animal. Commercial rct v. s. small group rct (as opposed to individuals) Reflect (reporting guidelines for randomized control trials in livestock and food safety) Objective/question formulation: to document current reporting of important components of clinical trials, and to investigate the association between quality of reporting and treatment effects.
