The Sri Lanka Clinical Trials Registry – five years young, and growing
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The Sri Lanka Clinical Trials Registry - five years young, and growing.
The global clinical trial regulatory landscape was changing at the dawn of the new millennium. There was widespread discontent over selective publication of positive trial results and concealment of negative results, leading to distortion of the body of evidence available for clinical decision making [1-3]. As a result, there was a growing call for more transparency in the conduct and public di...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ceylon Medical Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2386-1274,0009-0875
DOI: 10.4038/cmj.v57i2.4316