Opinions on registering trial details: a survey of academic researchers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The World Health Organization (WHO) has established a set of items related to study design and administrative information that should build the minimum set of data in a study register. A more comprehensive data set for registration is currently developed by the Ottawa Group. Since nothing is known about the attitudes of academic researchers towards prospective study registration, we surveyed academic researchers about their opinion regarding the registration of study details proposed by the WHO and the Ottawa Group.

Methods

This was a web-based survey of academic researchers currently running an investigator-initiated clinical study which is registered with clinicaltrials.gov. In July 2006 we contacted 1299 principal investigators of clinical studies by e-mail exp

SUBMITTER: Scherer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2245930 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature