title: Registering diagnostic and prognostic trials of tests: is it the right thing to do?
authors.affiliation: Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; nader.rifai@childrens.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Nader
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rifai
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;
authors.forename: Patrick M M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Bossuyt
authors.affiliation: C.F. Rehnborg Chair in Disease Prevention, Professor of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy, and of Statistics, and Co-director, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA;
authors.forename: John P A
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Ioannidis
authors.affiliation: Principal Staff Clinical Scientist, Beckman Coulter Diagnostic Division, Carlsbad, CA;
authors.forename: Kurtis R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Bray
authors.affiliation: Mathematical statistician, US National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD;
authors.forename: Lisa M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: McShane
authors.affiliation: Deputy Editor, JAMA, Chicago, IL;
authors.forename: Robert M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Golub
authors.affiliation: Director of the Netherlands Trial Register, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Deputy-director of the Dutch Cochrane Centre, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Lotty
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hooft
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003933:Diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D012042:Registries / Q000941:ethics* / Q000592:standards*