Promoting Better Clinical Trials and Drug Information as Public Health Interventions for the COVID-19 Emergency in Italy.

Addis, Antonio; Genazzani, Armando; Trotta, Maria Paola; Magrini, Nicola; Italian Medicines Agency's Scientific Committee and COVID-19 Crisis Unit · Ann Intern Med · 2020

editorial · Level V

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Abstract

According to these authors from the Italian Medicines Agency, “evidence-informed prescribing and clinical trials were beaten off the mark by social media, rumors, and panic in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.” In this article, they describe lessons learned to counteract misleading information and nudge the research community to do high-quality, informative multigroup trials.

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