RReACT goes global: Perils and pitfalls of constructing a global open-access database of registered analgesic clinical trials and trial results

Pain

Volumn 155, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1313-1317

  Munch, Troels ^a,b   Dufka, Faustine L ^a   Greene, Kaitlin ^a   Smith, Shannon M ^c   Dworkin, Robert H ^c   Rowbotham, Michael C ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trial registries; Clinical trials; Databases; Open access; Publication bias; Transparency in research

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DATA BASE; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DRUG INDUSTRY; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ALGORITHM; FACTUAL DATABASE; PUBLISHING; REGISTER;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; NEURALGIA, POSTHERPETIC; PUBLICATION BIAS; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84902331730     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2014.04.007     Document Type: Article

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