An Assessment of Publication Status of Pediatric Liver Transplantation Studies.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pediatric liver transplantation is a highly specialized, challenging field. Selective reporting may introduce bias into evidence based clinical decision making, but the precise extent of unpublished data in pediatric liver transplantation is unknown today. We therefore assessed the public availability of completed clinical trials in pediatric liver transplantation.

Methods

We determined the proportion of published and unpublished pre-registered, completed pediatric liver transplantation studies on ClinicalTrials.gov. The major trial and literature databases, i.e., clinicaltrials.gov, Pubmed, and Google Scholar were searched for publications. In addition, principal investigators or sponsors were contacted directly. STROBE criteria were applied for the descriptive

SUBMITTER: Breil T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5167264 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature