Abstract:Healthcare practice should be based on the best available evidence, coming from rigorous research methodologies. 1 Improvement of practice, going from doing no harm to incorporation of new technologies in public assistance, therefore requires access to robust scientific evidence, through the availability of good and complete research reports. However, what we see today is that access to high-quality evidence is somewhat hampered by poor reporting. More than 80% of clinical trials and observational studies publ… Show more
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