AT McCray - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2000 - Am Coll Physicians Access to information about clinical trials is important to researchers, health care
professionals, and patients. Many have argued for the establishment of clinical trials
registries, citing their substantial benefits. Although some registries do exist, it has been ... Cited by 47 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 13 versions
[CITATION] Building TrialsCentral, an online register of clinical trials registers
- ►bmj.com E Manheimer, D Anderson - British Medical Journal, 2002 - bmj.com No comprehensive system for tracking, organising, and disseminating information about ongoing
clinical trials currently exists. Selected trials are instead registered in one or more of hundreds
of distinct, predominantly online registers. 1 The absence of a comprehensive, ... Cited by 42 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
- ►bmj.com A Tonks - British Medical Journal, 2002 - bmj.com For more than a decade, clinical trialists and their sponsors have been saying that they want
all controlled clinical trials tagged and listed somewhere while they are in progress preferably
on an international register that's simple to use, searchable, and free to anyone who ... Cited by 43 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
- ►nih.gov [PDF] R Horton, R Smith - The Lancet, 1999 - Elsevier Every year, national funding agencies, medical research charities, and drug and device manufacturers
invest vast sums of money into randomised controlled trials. Although the distribution of this money
is not entirely random, the process is certainly chaotic and commonly takes little account ... Cited by 112 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
CL Meinert - IRB, 1988 - jstor.org The case for registering trials on initiation (herein referred to as prospec- tive registration) has
been made by various authors in relation to planning, state-of-the-art assessments, and
meta- analyses of trials.1'8 Clearly, reliance on the published literature for such activ- ities ... Cited by 31 - Related articles - All 3 versions
JP Boissel, MC Haugh - Fundamental and Clinical …, 1997 - interscience.wiley.com Summary—Clinical trial registries could make an important contribution to research by playing
a role in the avoidance of trial duplication as well as serving as a source of information on the
existence of clinical trials for those wishing to perform overviews. In order to fulfil their role ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - All 3 versions
G Antes - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004 - SciELO Public Health For unbiased judgement of the effectiveness of medications or non-pharmaceutical
therapies, controlled clinical trials are the most important elements in deciding whether an intervention
does more good than harm. Often undervalued, but increasingly used under the concept ... Cited by 12 - Related articles - Cached - BL Direct - All 12 versions
K Dickersin - Controlled clinical trials, 1988 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov A plenary session at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials addressed "The
Case for Registers of Clinical Trials." There are a number of reasons for having registers of clinical
trials: to promote collaboration and communication among investigators regarding new ... Cited by 47 - Related articles
- ►bmj.com A Tonks - British Medical Journal, 1999 - bmj.com Randomised trials of medical interventions are the foundation of evidence based health
care, but most are effectively conducted in secret. Few people usually an elite network of
investigators, funding agencies, and government regulatory bodies know about a trial ... Cited by 61 - Related articles - All 8 versions
