title: Registration of all rehabilitation clinical trials: an ethical and editorial imperative.
abstract: Registration of randomized controlled trials is essential to reduce the risk of biased data being used when judging the effectiveness of an intervention. This journal will in future require that all randomized trials submitted are registered on a recognized register. This editorial explains why.
authors.forename: Derick
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wade
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D006801:Humans; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012042:Registries; D000066768:Rehabilitation Research / Q000941:ethics*
keywords: Trial registration; randomised trials; systematic reviews