title: The COMET initiative database: progress and activities update (2014).
abstract: The COMET Initiative database is a repository of studies relevant to the development of core outcome sets (COS). Use of the website continues to increase, with more than 16,500 visits in 2014 (36 % increase over 2013), 12,257 unique visitors (47 % increase), 9780 new visitors (43 % increase) and a rise in the proportion of visits from outside the UK (8565 visits; 51 % of all visits). By December 2014, a total of 6588 searches had been completed, with 2383 in 2014 alone (11 % increase). The growing awareness of the need for COS is reflected in the website and database usage figures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Block F Waterhouse Building, 1-5 Brownlow Street, Liverpool, L69 3GL, UK. e.gargon@liv.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gargon
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Block F Waterhouse Building, 1-5 Brownlow Street, Liverpool, L69 3GL, UK. prw@liverpool.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Paula R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Williamson
authors.affiliation: Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, Windmill Road, Oxford, OX3 7LD, UK. doug.altman@csm.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Doug G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Altman
authors.affiliation: School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, 39 Whatley Road, Bristol, BS8 2PS, UK. J.M.Blazeby@bristol.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Jane M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Blazeby
authors.affiliation: Queens University Belfast, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Block B, Royal Hospitals, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, BT12 6BA, UK. m.clarke@qub.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Clarke
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D007391:International Cooperation; D020407:Internet