[Clinical trials registry].
Authors and journals are more enthusiastic about the publication of trials with positive results than those negative or inconclusive trials. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors proposed comprehensive trials registration as a solution to the problem of selective awareness and announces that the ICMJE member journals will adopt a trial-registration policy to promote this goal. They establish as a condition of consideration for publication, registration in a public trials registry. They recommend registries that meet certain criteria as www.clinicaltrials.com. Among those criteria is that the registry must be supported by a non-profit organization. On the other hand, people from Current Controlled Trials Ltd. being a commercial company, but meeting all the other criteria established by the ICMJE, feel that is being put aside. We wonder if clinical trials in our country are being registered in some of these International Registries. If not, would it be time to do so?
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