Restoring invisible and abandoned trials: a call for people to publish the findings

Peter Doshi; Kay Dickersin; David Healy; S Swaroop Vedula; Tom Jefferson

doi:10.1136/bmj.f2865

Restoring invisible and abandoned trials: a call for people to publish the findings

BMJ. 2013 Jun 13;346:f2865. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f2865.

Authors

Peter Doshi¹, Kay Dickersin, David Healy, S Swaroop Vedula, Tom Jefferson

Affiliation

¹ Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. pdoshi@post.harvard.edu

Abstract

Unpublished and misreported studies make it difficult to determine the true value of a treatment. Peter Doshi and colleagues call for sponsors and investigators of abandoned studies to publish (or republish) and propose a system for independent publishing if sponsors fail to respond

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Early Termination of Clinical Trials*
Humans
Publishing*
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic*