An unprecedented 11 organizations sponsored the evidence-based and expert opinion guidelines.
Each of the authors served as a member of one of three evidence review teams (ERTs). 1 The organizers of the review disseminated the findings during a U.S. government-sponsored evidence "summit" – a facilitated discussion with approximately 150 international experts (2012).
Indeed, West et al released a 2002 evidence report sponsored by the AHRQ comparing and contrasting various systems to rate the strength and quality of research evidence to assist in these activities [ 4].
The evidence on sponsored academies, the supposed "silver bullet" for school improvement, has also worn thin, thanks largely to the diligent research of my Local Schools Network colleague Henry Stewart.
The side by side comparison of the LDL cholesterol lowering effects of individual statins obtained from industry and non-industry sponsored trials provides compelling evidence that there is no systematic difference in the LDL cholesterol reduction from baseline achieved in the two sets of trials evaluating the same sets of statins at the same doses.
A notable example of a randomized policy study that arose from a governmental sponsored social investment in evidence-based policy is PROGRESA or Oportunidades in Mexico.
Stepanov, who together with his wife gathered damning undercover evidence of state sponsored doping, said he feared little had changed.
He was not known as a patron of authors, and there is little evidence that he sponsored scholarship or other intellectual activities.
12 13 Secondly, there is evidence that industry sponsored trials are more likely than other trials to report outcomes that are favourable to the study sponsor.
The present results also indicate a deep-seated sense of unease with the credibility of research evidence provided or sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.
However, in 2010, an additional item recommending the reporting of trial funding was added to the CONSORT statement following the emergence of evidence that studies sponsored by pharmaceutical companies were more likely to have outcomes favouring the sponsor than studies with other sponsors, with an odds ratio of 4.05, (95 % CI 2.98 to 5.51) [ 10, 11].
