Timing and Completeness of Trial Results Posted at ClinicalTrials.gov and Published in Journals

Agnes Dechartres and colleagues searched ClinicalTrials.gov for completed drug RCTs with results reported and then searched for corresponding studies in PubMed to evaluate timeliness and completeness of reporting. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2013-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001566PMID 24311990PMCID 3849189
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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