[Comment] Learning from a negative trial of lockable pesticide storage

With a view to reducing pesticide self-poisoning in Sri Lanka, Melissa Pearson and colleagues1 did one of the largest community-based cluster-randomised controlled trials of the effectiveness of household lockable pesticide storage, reported in The Lancet. The effort is admirable, but unfortunately their results show that improved household pesticide storage did not reduce the incidence of pesticide self-poisoning.
Source: LANCET - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Comment Source Type: research