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Nonregistration, discontinuation, and nonpublication of randomized trials: A repeated metaresearch analysis

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العنوان: Nonregistration, discontinuation, and nonpublication of randomized trials: A repeated metaresearch analysis
المؤلفون: Speich, Benjamin, Gryaznov, Dmitry, Busse, Jason W., Gloy, Viktoria L., Lohner, Szimonetta, Klatte, Katharina, Taji Heravi, Ala, Ghosh, Nilabh, Lee, Hopin, Mansouri, Anita, Marian, Ioana R., Saccilotto, Ramon, Nury, Edris, Kasenda, Benjamin, Ojeda–Ruiz, Elena, Schandelmaier, Stefan, Tomonaga, Yuki, Amstutz, Alain, Pauli–Magnus, Christiane, Bischoff, Karin, Wollmann, Katharina, Rehner, Laura, Meerpohl, Joerg J., Nordmann, Alain, Wong, Jacqueline, Chow, Ngai, Hong, Patrick Jiho, Mc Cord – De Iaco, Kimberly, Sricharoenchai, Sirintip, Agarwal, Arnav, Schwenkglenks, Matthias, Hemkens, Lars G., von Elm, Erik, Copsey, Bethan, Griessbach, Alexandra N., Schönenberger, Christof, Mertz, Dominik, Blümle, Anette, von Niederhäusern, Belinda, Hopewell, Sally, Odutayo, Ayodele, Briel, Matthias
المساهمون: Kesselheim, Aaron S., Swiss Federal Office of Publich Health, Swiss National Science Foundation, Research Foundation of the University of Basel, NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
المصدر: PLOS Medicine ; volume 19, issue 4, page e1003980 ; ISSN 1549-1676
بيانات النشر: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: PLOS Publications (via CrossRef)
الوصف: Background We previously found that 25% of 1,017 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) approved between 2000 and 2003 were discontinued prematurely, and 44% remained unpublished at a median of 12 years follow-up. We aimed to assess a decade later (1) whether rates of completion and publication have increased; (2) the extent to which nonpublished RCTs can be identified in trial registries; and (3) the association between reporting quality of protocols and premature discontinuation or nonpublication of RCTs. Methods and findings We included 326 RCT protocols approved in 2012 by research ethics committees in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada in this metaresearch study. Pilot, feasibility, and phase 1 studies were excluded. We extracted trial characteristics from each study protocol and systematically searched for corresponding trial registration (if not reported in the protocol) and full text publications until February 2022. For trial registrations, we searched the (i) World Health Organization: International Clinical Trial Registry Platform (ICTRP); (ii) US National Library of Medicine ( ClinicalTrials.gov ); (iii) European Union Drug Regulating Authorities Clinical Trials Database (EUCTR); (iv) ISRCTN registry; and (v) Google. For full text publications, we searched PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scopus. We recorded whether RCTs were registered, discontinued (including reason for discontinuation), and published. The reporting quality of RCT protocols was assessed with the 33-item SPIRIT checklist. We used multivariable logistic regression to examine the association between the independent variables protocol reporting quality, planned sample size, type of control (placebo versus other), reporting of any recruitment projection, single-center versus multicenter trials, and industry versus investigator sponsoring, with the 2 dependent variables: (1) publication of RCT results; and (2) trial discontinuation due to poor recruitment. Of the 326 included trials, 19 (6%) were unregistered. Ninety-eight trials ...
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003980
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003980Test
حقوق: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.8625548C
قاعدة البيانات: BASE