Shoulder Arthroplasty Trials Are Infrequently Registered: A Systematic Review of Trials.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

With the intent of improving transparency in clinical research, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) established guidelines in 2005 regarding prospective clinical trial registration. This action worked to address bias related to selective outcome reporting in the medical literature. The objective of this study was to assess and characterize the quality of registration of clinical trials appearing in shoulder arthroplasty-related medical journals.

Methods

All randomized trials involving human subjects, pertaining to shoulder arthroplasty, published between July 1, 2005 and December 31, 2015, and indexed in either PubMed or SportDISCUS were analyzed. We assessed the prevalence of registration, the timing of registration relative to patien

SUBMITTER: Sims MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5072652 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature