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September 12, 2007

Expensive drug bias

In his The Pulse article The War on Study Bias of September 11th, Anders Sandberg writes about the conflict of interest in government-sponsored studies comparing treatment effectiveness. The government is trying to find medical truth while at the same time cutting costs. Might it mean a bias favouring cheaper drugs for the patients? Is it possible to avoid bias in studies, or even to reduce it considerably?

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Posted by Waldemar at September 12, 2007 09:09 AM