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Acceptable, tolerable, manageable - but not to patients. How drug trials report harms.

Acceptable, tolerable, manageable - but not to patients. How drug trials report harms.

FromThe BMJ Podcast


Acceptable, tolerable, manageable - but not to patients. How drug trials report harms.

FromThe BMJ Podcast

ratings:
Length:
26 minutes
Released:
Nov 19, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

You’ll have read in a clinical trial “Most patients had an acceptable adverse-event profile.” Or that a drug “has a manageable and mostly reversible safety profile.” And that “the tolerability was good overall.”

In this podcast, Bishal Gyawali (@oncology_bg) joins us to describe what events those terms were actually describing in cancer drug trials, and how they reduce the readers appreciation of the adverse effects of these novel drugs.

Read the full analysis:
https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4383
Released:
Nov 19, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully “online first” publication. The BMJ’s vision is to be the world’s most influential and widely read medical journal. Our mission is to lead the debate on health and to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers, and other health professionals in ways that will improve outcomes for patients. We aim to help doctors to make better decisions.