Trial registration numbers are underreported in biomedical publications.

CONTEXT: Since September 2005, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has required that randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are prospectively registered in a publicly accessible database. After registration, a trial registration number (TRN) is assigned to each RCT, which sho...

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Main Authors: Fleur T van de Wetering, Rob J P M Scholten, Tamara Haring, Michael Clarke, Lotty Hooft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3498197?pdf=render