Registration of clinical trials.
Since 2005 the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has required that a condition of publication of a prospective controlled trial is that it should be registered in an accessible database prior to starting the trial. It is understandable that for a…
Since 2005 the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has required that a condition of publication of a prospective controlled trial is that it should be registered in an accessible database prior to starting the trial. It is understandable that for a few years afterwards, trials that had been commenced prior to this standard might not have been pre-registered. I don't think there is any reasonable excuse for not pre-registering prospective trials in more recent years. Since 2013, the World Medical Association's declaration of Helsinki has also clearly stated "Every research study involving human subjects must be registered in a publicly accessible database before recruitment of the first subject".
