Do trialists endorse clinical trial registration? Survey of a Pubmed sample.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite intense interest in trial registration, there is a wide gap between theoretical postulates on trial registration and its implementation worldwide.

Objective

We aimed to evaluate trialists views about current international guidelines on trial registration, including the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) policies and the Ottawa Statement, as well as their intention to register any future clinical trials they conduct.

Methods

We identified all 40,158 PUBMED-indexed clinical trials published from May 2005 to May 2006 using an advanced search strategy. From a random sample of 500 confirmed clinical trials, corresponding authors with e-mail contact addresses were surveyed.

Results

A total of

SUBMITTER: Reveiz L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2147029 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature