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· Jul 15
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![Statisticians are often ignored, don't ignore this poster
Adrian Barnett¹, Nicole White¹, Taya A Collyer2
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
Peninsula Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne
PROBLEM: Waste in research
Much health and medical research is wasted due to inappropriate study design or analysis
Waste could be reduced using expert review from a qualified statistician
Ethical review is an ideal stage to get expert input
Recently updated Declaration of Helsinki: "research must have a scientifically sound and rigorous design and execution that are likely to [...] avoid research waste."
DESIGN: Census of all human research ethics committees in Australia
Key question: does the committee have access to a qualified statistician?
CONCLUSIONS
Large and unjustified variation in practice between ethics committees
Many claims of having access to a statistician were not backed up with qualifications
Many committees have a narrow view of the value of statisticians
Recommendation: Randomised trials and prediction models should not receive ethical approval unless the research team includes](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n2yhxn2fcj4ccyl6qkim43zh/bafkreid3wl6hgzbnoopsexcv4ckajulba4u2gvx2pdfhg2fjts6hq36sbq@jpeg)
