Posted by KellyD on February 14, 2004, at 10:14:14
In reply to Eli Lilly and Responsibility, posted by pharmamother on February 13, 2004, at 22:47:17
I am so sorry for the loss that touched your family.
I have also been a bit on the data collect end of clinical trials and have seen how data gets shifted round with "disallows" . "Disallows" being (loosely and not officially) defined as those with findings not in keeping with the expected (ie: postive) findings. I hope that does not occur here but those facts do indeed "get lost"... then, there can be huge issues when a substance goes to market and horrible outcomes occur.
The ethics question does come into play despite the processes that are SUPPOSE to be in place...... very sad indeed.
What criteria did they use that a nondepressed person was in this trial?
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