Trial registration and time to publication in a retrospective cohort of publicly funded randomised controlled trials in New Zealand 1999-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine how quickly randomised controlled trials funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) were registered and published, and whether time to publication differed by trial result.

Design

We created a retrospective cohort of trials offered funding from 1999 to 2017 by seeking lists of candidate studies using the Official Information Act 1982. These lists were supplemented by searching the HRC's online research repository and an open-access database on Figshare. One investigator searched for trial registrations and for dissemination using electronic databases, university websites and ResearchGate. One investigator extracted data from the obtained studies and a second investigator independently corroborated the data entry from a 10% random sampl

SUBMITTER: Jull A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9540847 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature