During the Song dynasty, independent and government sponsored industries were developed to meet the needs of a growing population that had reached over 100 million.
We needn't be concerned that the companies sponsoring industry marketplaces on the Internet might become monopolies.
Investigator-initiated post-hoc analyses of single RCTs that were formally sponsored by industry should also be scored as industry-supported.
Lundh and colleagues found that compared to non-industry sponsored human studies, industry-sponsored human studies more often have favorable efficacy results and conclusions which cannot be completely explained by differences in methodology [ 19].
These findings support our hypothesis that publication bias is more evident in non-industry sponsored studies than industry sponsored studies.
There were no systematic differences between the findings obtained from industry sponsored and non-industry sponsored trials (fig 5).
There were no systematic differences in magnitude between the LDL cholesterol lowering effects of individual statins observed in industry sponsored versus non-industry sponsored trials.
However, the difference in the frequency of either statistically significant findings or favourable conclusions observed between industry sponsored and non-industry sponsored trials should not be referred to as bias.
"The most important studies that have been done in the statin field to date have been sponsored by industry".
Drug studies sponsored by industry must be truly independent–outside of company control.
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