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I looked through some charities and tried to assess their efforts. I ended up looking at what activities they were carrying out, how much detail they provided about their activities, the quality of any financial reporting/quality reporting processes they seemed to have and how easy it seemed to be to access financial breakdowns. The exercise became more of a "gut feel" analysis than I would have liked but was still tremendously useful - I'm open to suggested edits/additions, and will touch on some of the further research I would have ...
Great suggestion, particularly as you say for trials with a super expensive treatment relative to control.
In defense of current practice, I'd like to add that a major difficulty when running medical trials for new therapeutics is simply recruiting patients to the trial. Many patients enroll on the trial with the aim of getting the experimental treatment, so it's a lot easier to recruit people when your trial has a 50% or 75% chance of assignment to therapeutic arm.
Some other important strategies that are currently hot right now:
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