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Promoting public access to clinical trial protocols: challenges and recommendations

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Title
Promoting public access to clinical trial protocols: challenges and recommendations
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Trials, February 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13063-018-2510-1
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An-Wen Chan, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson

Abstract

Recognizing the value of promoting public access to clinical trial protocols, Trials pioneered the way for their publication over a decade ago. However, despite major advances in the public accessibility of information about trial methods and results, protocol sharing remains relatively rare. Protocol sharing facilitates the critical appraisal of clinical trials and helps to identify and deter the selective reporting of outcomes and analyses. Challenges to the routine availability of high quality trial protocols include the gaps in incentives and adherence mechanisms, limited venues for sharing the original and final protocol versions, and the need for mechanisms to ensure transparent and complete protocol content. We propose recommendations for addressing key challenges to protocol sharing in order to promote routine public access to protocols for the benefit of patients and other users of evidence from clinical trials.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 48 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 15%
Student > Master 6 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 8%
Researcher 4 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 8%
Other 7 15%
Unknown 16 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 6%
Computer Science 3 6%
Other 11 23%
Unknown 12 25%