Trial registration in Latin America and the Caribbean's: Study of randomized trials published in 2010

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 482-487

  Reveiz, Ludovic ^a   Bonfill, Xavier ^b   Glujovsky, Demian ^c   Pinzon, Carlos E ^d   Asenjo Lobos, Claudia ^e   Cortes, Marcela ^f   Canon, Martin ^d   Bardach, Ariel ^c   Comande, Daniel ^c   Cardona, Andres F ^g  

^a PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND HEALTH POLICY   (Argentina)

^d Fundacion Universitaria Sanitas   (Colombia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^f UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE LA SANTÍSIMA CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN SANTA FE DE BOGOTÁ   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Cross sectional study; Latin America and the Caribbean; Methods; Publication bias; Randomized controlled trials; Trial registration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDLINE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTRATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PUBLISHING; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CARIBBEAN REGION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; PREVALENCE; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84861108892     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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