Premature trial discontinuation often not accurately reflected in registries: comparison of registry records with publications

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 81, Issue , 2017, Pages 56-63

  Alturki, Reem ^a,b   Schandelmaier, Stefan ^a,c   Olu, Kelechi Kalu ^a   von Niederhäusern, Belinda ^d   Agarwal, Arnav ^d   Frei, Roy ^a   Bhatnagar, Neera ^d   Hooft, Lotty ^e   von Elm, Erik ^f   Briel, Matthias ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b KING FAHAD SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Early termination of clinical trials (MeSH); Randomized controlled trial as topic (MeSH); Reporting quality; Trial registration

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BENEFIT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA BASE; EARLY TERMINATION OF CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; PATIENT HARM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTER; SAMPLE SIZE; SLOW RECRUITMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ODDS RATIO; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY TERMINATION OF CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 85009165953     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.08.011     Document Type: Article

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