Touching Base on Clinical Trial Registration

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...

Trial registration 10 years on.

This monthmarks the tenth anniversary of the landmark decision by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors to make journals require “registration of any clinical trials in a public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrolment as a condition of consideration for publication.” It has been a long journey. The idea of prospective registration was first suggested in...