Median Watch

Eyes on statistics

Publishing "negative" results

We’ve just published the world’s first randomised trial of funding (paper available here). We ran a truly novel study, using a gold standard study design, and with a published protocol. So why did it take two years to get through peer review? Too much care Our team also recently published a large randomised trial about reducing unnecessary care at the end of life (paper available here). A completely different area to funding, but again an important research question, with a strong study design, and a peer reviewed protocol.