Thus whoever generates EBM, by funding RCTs, meta-analyses, and CME, may bias clinical decision-making regarding pharmaceuticals [78].
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Says Draper, "No meta fund or anything has been launched, but we're researching a fund-of-funds type vehicle across the network.
Meta's funding is a sign of how investors are keen to get in early in what is still far from a mainstream industry, but also a mark of how no one is quite sure which way it will develop.
The nature of the intervention, source of funding, number of individual meta-analyses performed, number of primary studies included in the review, and use of meta-analytic methods were all recorded.
We propose that Georgescu-Roegen's The Entropy Law and the Economic Process is best understood as the elaboration of a general theory of economic production and we developed two conceptual tools (time and meta-funds), both of which are related to the dialectical distinction between process and not-process, which we use to operationalise this general theory.
Instead, meta-charities receive funding from donors who appreciate the services these organizations provide, allowing meta-charities to stay objective.
Similarly, of the seven meta-analyses on the effects of ESAs in cancer patients conducted since 2008 none of the meta-analyses with funding from ESA manufacturers identified an increased mortality risk (Aapro et al, 2008b; Glaspy et al, 2010).
The European Commission is funding a related effort, called Meta-genomics of the Human Intestinal Tract, and in October 2008 scientists from around the globe formed the International Human Microbiome Consortium to share data on the human metagenome comprising the genomes of all our commensal microorganisms among researchers around the world.
RCTs were included in all meta-analyses, two of which also included observational studies., The funding source was not declared in one meta-analysis; a manufacturing company funded the work by Rhorer et al. and the other three meta-analyses were either funded by not-for-profit institutions, of had received no funding.
