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 …

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 …

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 …

Over the last few years, there has been an increase in studies that use a clinical trial-type
design to measure the effects of a nursing a intervention. This marks a positive step in …

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 …

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 …

Abstract At the Journal of Clinical Nursing, we strive to publish the highest quality original
nursing research, including experimental studies. However, even with the most …

Background The inconsistencies between randomized clinical trials (RCTs) registrations
and peer‐reviewed publications may distort trial results and threaten the validity of evidence …