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They are working on it. There was an effort at Oxford to track perinatal trials -- started in the 1980's. It looks like it hasn't happened yet, but that various
by essayist 13y ago
They are working on it. There was an effort at Oxford to track perinatal trials -- started in the 1980's. It looks like it hasn't happened yet, but that various major players (PLOS, Center for Evidence-based Medicine) want to expand the brief to cover all clinical trials:
http://www.alltrials.net/about/ http://www.alltrials.net/about/
http://www.cochrane.org/about-us/history http://www.cochrane.org/about-us/history
- capnrefsmmat 13y agoFor many types of clinical trials, pre-registration and publication of results through ClinicalTrials.gov is required by the FDA. I think it's been five or ten years now. Unfortunately, compliance isn't great -- something like 80% of studies registered on ClinicalTrials.gov never have results published there. 20% of registered studies never have results published anywhere.