Providing trial results to participants in phase III pragmatic effectiveness RCTs: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is an ethical imperative to offer the results of trials to those who participated. Existing research highlights that less than a third of trials do so, despite the desire of participants to receive the results of the trials they participated in. This scoping review aimed to identify, collate, and describe the available evidence relating to any aspect of disseminating trial results to participants.

Methods

A scoping review was conducted employing a search of key databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) from January 2008 to August 2019) to identify studies that had explored any aspect of disseminating results to trial participants. The search strategy was based on that of a linked existing re

SUBMITTER: Bruhn H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8147098 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature