Clinical Trial Registry

A Clinical Trial Registry is a data registry for clinical trial data.

• Example(s):
  • ClinicalTrials.gov Registry.
  • Deutsches Register Klinischer Studien (DRKS).
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• See: Clinical Trial Registration, Replication Crisis, p-Hacking, Publication Bias, Data Dredging, Post Hoc Analysis, HARKing, Open Science.

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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preregistration_(science)#Clinical_trial_registration Retrieved:2021-11-23.
  • Clinical trial registration is the practice of documenting clinical trials before they are performed in a clinical trials registry so as to combat publication bias and selective reporting. Registration of clinical trials is required in some countries and is increasingly being standardized. Some top medical journals will only publish the results of trials that have been pre-registered.

    A clinical trials registry is a platform which catalogs registered clinical trials. ClinicalTrials.gov, run by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) was the first online registry for clinical trials, and remains the largest and most widely used. In addition to combating bias, clinical trial registries serve to increase transparency and access to clinical trials for the public. Clinical trials registries are often searchable (e.g. by disease/indication, drug, location, etc.). Trials are registered by the pharmaceutical, biotech or medical device company (Sponsor) or by the hospital or foundation which is sponsoring the study, or by another organization, such as a contract research organization (CRO) which is running the study.

    There has been a push from governments and international organizations, especially since 2005, to make clinical trial information more widely available and to standardize registries and processes of registering. The World Health Organization is working toward "achieving consensus on both the minimal and the optimal operating standards for trial registration".

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