Marching ahead with clinical trial registration

Clinical trial registration: looking back and moving ahead.

In 2005, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) initiated a policy requir­ ing investigators to deposit information about trial design into an accepted clinical trials regis­ try before the onset of patient enrollment.1 This policy aimed to ensure that information about the existence and design of clinically directive trials was publicly available, an ideal that leaders ...

Clinical trial registration.

Clinical trial registration: internal conflict?

To the Editor: To assure transparency and reporting of all conducted clinical trials, in 2004, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) announced its statement on clinical trial registration (1). According to this statement, any clinical trial should be registered before its beginning in certain registries, so that researchers can be aware of its progress and results at di...

Clinical trial registration--now required.

Clinical Trial Registration: The Time Has Come….

Note from the AJOT Editor-in-Chief: AJOT has joined several other major rehabilitation and disability journals in a collaborative initiative to mandate clinical trial registration. Authors of manuscripts reporting clinical trials must ensure that the trials are registered before submitting their manuscript. For trials that are underway and are already enrolling patients, registration will be re...