Year: 2005 |
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LHNCBC-2005-040 |
Trial Registration at ClinicalTrials.gov between May and October 2005 |
Zarin DA, Tse T, Ide NC |
New England Journal of Medicine 2005 December 29,353(26):2779-87. |
Clinical trial registration allows interested parties to obtain information about ongoing and completed trials, but there are few data indicating the quality of the information provided during the registration process. We used information in the publicly available ClinicalTrials.gov database to describe patterns of trial registration before and after the implementation by journal editors of a new policy requiring registration as a prerequisite for publication. We reviewed ClinicalTrials.gov records to determine patterns of completion of the "Intervention Name" and i"Primary Outcome Measure" data fields for trials registered on May 20 and October 11, 2005, and for trials registered during the interval between these two dates, inclusively. |
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