Can ethics committees help tackle publication bias?

 

" If studies are done in human subjects but not published, then those studies might as well not have been done at all. Worse still, if the studies that are not published are systematically different from the ones that are (and the evidence is pretty clear that they are, and that positive studies are more likely to be published than negative ones), non-publication of research can seriously bias the literature. This is known as publication bias".

"The problem of publication bias has been on the radar of many people in recent years, although because of the long lag times in researching such things, it’s not clear to what extent recent efforts to fix the problem have been successful. Nonetheless, it’s probably safe to assume that the problem has not been 100% fixed, and that some studies are still done in human subjects and do not get published. To ensure the completeness of the medical literature, it is therefore important to ensure that such efforts continue".
IIt's an interesting blogpost about publishing in Clinical Trial. Read more here .