Objective We assessed the adequacy of randomized controlled trial (RCT) registration,
changes to registration data and reporting completeness for articles in ICMJE journals …

The vast majority of health-related observational studies are not prospectively registered
and the advantages of registration have not been fully appreciated. Nonetheless …

This is not our only obligation, however. In Western societies, medical product development
is left to the marketplace, not to academia or government agencies. 29 For drugs and …

Background: The Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) guidelines were first published in 2016 as
a tool for surgeons to document and report their surgical cases in a standardised and …

Referred to as a comic opera by Richard Horton of The Lancet in 1996, surgical research
has frequently been criticized for poor standards of study design and reporting1, 2. The …

Objectives We sought to evaluate the characteristics and publication fate of improperly
registered clinical trials submitted to a medical journal (The BMJ) over a 4-year period to …

III. D. 2. Redundant Publication) and its distinction from the trial results summaries in a
registry:“The ICMJE does not consider results posted in clinical trials registries as previous …

Objective Prospective registration has been widely implemented and accepted as a best
practice in clinical research, but retrospective registration is still commonly found. We …

Prospective registration of clinical trials helps minimize publication and selective outcome
reporting bias (Dickersin & Rennie, 2003). It has been a requirement of trials published in …