HLST 3015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Odds Ratio, Risperidone, Olanzapine
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Joel lexchin, the pharmaceutical industry and clinical trials. The wille sutton rule: why did he rob banks , that"s where the money is. In terms of clinical trials the money is in the private sectors not in the public sectors. 2009-2010: cihr spending on randomized clinical trials, 31. 37 million. Odds ratio of industry funded trials having positive results 2. 15. Who is paying for the trials makes a difference in the outcome of these trials. There tends to be a huge bias here.