TY  - JOUR
T1  - REgistration of clinical trials
AU  - Rivara FP
Y1  - 2005/07/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.159.7.685
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 685
EP  - 685
VL  - 159
IS  - 7
N2  - 
The ICMJE has taken this position because currently there is no requirement that trial results be made public. Pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and the developers of clinical procedures or patient interventions may sometimes be tempted to submit for publication clinical trials that report results favorable to products or inventions but conceal trials that report no benefit or adverse effects.2 To the extent that favorable trials are more often submitted, the published medical literature may present a distorted picture of available evidence about treatment. The ICMJE hopes that a trial registry will allow editors, journal reviewers, journal readers, and investigators who systematically review evidence to find out whether all available trial evidence for a particular intervention has been published.

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.159.7.685
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.159.7.685
ER  -