Impact of sending email reminders of the legal requirement for posting results on ClinicalTrials.gov: Cohort embedded pragmatic randomized controlled trial

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 349, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Maruani, Annabel ^a,c   Boutron, Isabelle ^a,c   Baron, Gabriel ^a,c   Ravaud, Philippe ^a,b,c  

^a HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^b French Cochrane Centre   (France)

^c Department of Epidemiology Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; E-MAIL; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAW; LEGAL PROCEDURE; POLICY; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; PUBLISHING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTROLLED STUDY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMINDER SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ELECTRONIC MAIL; HUMANS; REMINDER SYSTEMS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84907273685     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g5579     Document Type: Article

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