Beyond trial registration: a global trial bank for clinical trial reporting

PLoS Med. 2005 Nov;2(11):e365. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020365. Epub 2005 Oct 18.

Authors

Ida Sim¹, Don E Detmer

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medicine, and the Program in Biological and Medical Informatics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America. sim@medicine.ucsf.edu

Abstract

The prose reporting of trial information could be powerfully augmented by a computable repository of trial information-a global "trial bank."

MeSH terms

Clinical Trials as Topic / standards
Clinical Trials as Topic / statistics & numerical data*
Databases as Topic*
Drug Industry
Health Policy*
Humans
Peer Review
Publishing / standards
Registries*
Treatment Outcome
Truth Disclosure*
United States
World Health Organization