Premature discontinuation of prospective clinical studies approved by a research ethics committee - A comparison of randomised and non-randomised studies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Blümle, Anette ^d   Schandelmaier, Stefan ^a,c   Oeller, Patrick ^d   Kasenda, Benjamin ^a   Briel, Matthias ^a,c   von Elm, Erik ^b   Akl, Elie A ^c,g   Amstutz, Alain ^a   Bassler, Dirk ^h   Bengough, Theresa ^b,c   Bucher, Heiner C ^a   Burnand, Bernard ^b   Busse, Jason W ^c,q,t   Carrasco Labra, Alonso ^c,l   Ebrahim, Shanil ^c   Faulhaber, Markus ^c   Gloy, Viktoria ^a,p   Ferreira González, Ignacio ⁱ   Guyatt, Gordon H ^c   Hemkens, Lars G ^a   Johnston, Bradley C ^o,q,r   Lamontagne, Francois ^j   Meerpohl, Joerg J ^d   Mertz, Dominik ^c   Moja, Lorenzo ^k   Mulla, Sohail ^c   Neumann, Ignacio ^c,u,v   Nordmann, Alain ^a   Olu, Kelechi Kalu ^a   Raatz, Heike ^a   Rosenthal, Rachel ^l   Saccilotto, Ramon ^a   Schwenkglenks, Matthias ^e   Stegert, Mihaela ^a,s   Sun, Xin ^m   Tikkinen, Kari A O ^c,f   Tomonaga, Yuki ^e   Walter, Martin A ^p   Vandvik, Per O ⁿ   You, John J ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^g AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^j CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^k IRCCS ISTITUTO ORTOPEDICO GALEAZZI   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^m CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁿ NORWEGIAN KNOWLEDGE CENTRE FOR THE HEALTH SERVICES   (Norway)

^o HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^p UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^q MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^r UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^s HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^t UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^u Department of Health and Society ^*  (Austria)

^v PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GERMANY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PILOT STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESEARCH ETHICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHICS; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85021854750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165605     Document Type: Article

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