Results of all clinical trials should be posted within a year, says WHO
BMJ 2015; 350 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h1987 (Published 14 April 2015) Cite this as: BMJ 2015;350:h1987- Jacqui Wise
The
World Health Organization has said that the main findings of clinical
trials must be posted to a primary clinical trial registry within 12
months of the end of the study and be published in a peer reviewed
journal within 24 months.1
Primary
registries are those approved by WHO and include the European Union
Clinical Trials Register (EU-CTR) and, in the United States,
ClinicalTrials.gov.
WHO’s new position statement not only
reaffirms the ethical imperative of clinical trial reporting but also
calls for the reporting of results from older but still unpublished
trials. It also calls for the inclusion of a trial ID, a clinical trial
registry identifier. This means that manuscripts can easily be linked
with clinical trial registry entries and will help identify trials that
have been conducted but not reported.
Ben Goldacre, a co-founder of the AllTrials campaign (alltrials.net), which has been campaigning for …
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The World Health Organization has said that the main
findings of clinical trials must be posted to a primary clinical trial
registry within 12 months of the end of the study and be published in a
peer reviewed journal within 24 months.1
Primary
registries are those approved by WHO and include the European Union
Clinical Trials Register (EU-CTR) and, in the United States,
ClinicalTrials.gov.
WHO’s new position statement not only
reaffirms the ethical imperative of clinical trial reporting but also
calls for the reporting of results from older but still unpublished
trials. It also calls for the inclusion of a trial ID, a clinical trial
registry identifier. This means that manuscripts can easily be linked
with clinical trial registry entries and will help identify trials that
have been conducted but not reportedhttp://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h1987?etoc=
