Background Clinical trial registries can improve the validity of trial results by facilitating
comparisons between prospectively planned and reported outcomes. Previous reports on …

Update on Trial Registration 11 Years after the ICMJE Policy Was Established | New England
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This report presents the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) extension
for the stepped wedge cluster randomised trial (SW-CRT). The SW-CRT involves …

Objective To determine the rate of early discontinuation and non-publication of randomised
controlled trials involving patients undergoing surgery. Design Cross sectional observational …

Background Randomised clinical trials are key to advancing medical knowledge and to
enhancing patient care, but major barriers to their conduct exist. The present paper presents …

Background Prospective trial registration is a powerful tool to prevent reporting bias. We
aimed to determine the extent to which published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were …

Social isolation and loneliness are growing public health concerns in adults with obesity and
overweight. Social media-based interventions may be a promising approach. This …

Objective To address the bias occurring in the medical literature associated with selective
outcome reporting, in 2005, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) …

Background Due to problems of publication bias and selective reporting, the ICMJE requires
prospective registration of all clinical trials with an appropriate registry before the first …

Background Prospective study protocols and registrations can play a significant role in
reducing incomplete or selective reporting of primary biomedical research, because they are …