Nursing Research adheres to the World Health Organization (WHO) definition of a clinical
trial as “any research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of …

Since the AllTrials initiative (https://www. alltr ials. net/) there has been an improvement in
trial registration and reporting, but there is still room for improvement. At Journal of …

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 …

1 BACKGROUND Registration creates a public record of planned clinical trials and is
perhaps that most important weapon in ensuring unbiased reporting of clinical research. It is …

We have found that the registration requirement triggers many additional specific tasks as
we manage manuscripts—instituting the policy change involves many actions beyond …

Aim To determine the proportion of trials published in nursing science journals in 2017 that
were prospectively registered. Design A review of randomized controlled trials published in …

Correspondence we received on a recently published paper (Wang et al., 2021) highlights
the importance of prospective clinical trial registration (Gray, 2021). When registering a …

311 beings. Consequently, in 2004, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
decided to publish only those trials which had been registered in formal registries before …

Seventeen years ago, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in
America (2001) recommended the establishment of a comprehensive program aimed at …

Background Trial registration helps minimize publication and reporting bias. In leading
medical journals, 96% of published trials are registered. The aim of this study was to …