Clinical Trials Registration

Clinical Trials Registration

David P. Wilson, Sally M. Blower We agree with the thesis of Rosen et al. [1] that, despite initiatives such as the World Health Organization’s “3 by 5” program, rationing of HIV/AIDS antiretroviral therapy (ART) will be necessary in the majority of African countries. Diffi cult choices will need to be made, and choices will be constrained due to the limited health infrastructure and lack of qu...

Clinical trials registration

1IPAC Consulting, Woodstock; 2 Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario Correspondence: Mr Norman H Tiffin, IPAC Consulting, 107 Forestway Trail, Woodstock, Ontario N4S 7V6. Telephone 226-376-1414, fax 519-641-4800, e-mail [email protected] Over the past eight years, the registration of clinical trials has been strongly advocated by journals and editors, and is now con...

Prospective registration of clinical trials.

The news that the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Physiotherapy is moving to require that trials submitted for publication provide evidence of prospective registration in a publicly-accessible register is welcome as it indicates that specialist journals are now following the lead of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. In September 2004, the Committee decreed tha...

Registration of clinical trials--a regional perspective.

The birth of the scientific clinical trial is often cited as an experiment by James Lind. On 20 May 1743, Lind compared the effect of a few supposed nutritional remedies against scurvy. The research subjects, 12 sailors suffering from scurvy on board the ship HMS Salisbury, were divided into 6 groups. In one group, each patient was given 2 oranges and 1 lemon every day, to eat upon an empty sto...

Registration of clinical trials for publication.