Clinical Trial Registration in Oral Health Journals

Clinical trial registration in physiotherapy journals: recommendations from the International Society of Physiotherapy Journal Editors.

Clinical trial registration involves placing the protocol for a clinical trial on a free, publicly available, and electronically searchable register. Registration is considered to be prospective if the protocol is registered before the trial commences (ie, before the first participant is enrolled). Prospective registration has several potential advantages. It could help avoid trials being dupli...

Clinical trial registration.

Compliance with clinical trial registration and reporting guidelines by Latin American and Caribbean journals.

The objective of this study was to determine to what extent Latin American and Caribbean biomedical journals have endorsed and complied with clinical trial registration and reporting guidelines. A search of randomized clinical trials was carried out using the LILACS database. The randomized clinical trials identified through the search were assessed to determine whether trial registration and C...

ICMJE statement on compulsory clinical trial registration: should Indian journals follow suit?

In May 2005, the International Council for Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), a group of general medical journal editors who have been responsible for introducing the “uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals”, released a joint editorial statement on registration of clinical trials. ICMJE journals will consider manuscripts reporting clinical trials only if the trial w...

Uniform clinical trial registration policy for journals of kidney diseases, dialysis, and transplantation.