Practice of data sharing plans in clinical trial registrations and concordance between registered and published data sharing plans: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommends that trial authors must specify data sharing plans when trials are registered and published, yet this uptake remains unclear. We aimed to assess the practice of data sharing plans in trial registration platforms and the concordance between registered and published data sharing plans.

Methods

We included clinical trials published between 2021 and 2023 in six high-profile journals (The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, BMJ, JAMA Internal Medicine, and Annals of Internal Medicine) that enrolled participants no earlier than 2019 and registered on clinical trial platforms. One study outcome was data sharing plans in the trial registration platform, where trials clearly responding

SUBMITTER: Zhang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12403310 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature