Cohort study of trials submitted to ethics committee identified discrepant reporting of outcomes in publications

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
10513616	Journal of Clinical Epidemiology	2013	9 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Discrepant reporting was associated with statistical significance of results, type of outcome, and specialty area. Trial protocols should be made freely available, and the publications should describe and justify any changes made to protocol-defined outcomes.

Keywords

Randomized controlled trial Statistics and numerical data Publication bias Drug industry Treatment outcome Ethics committee

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Health Sciences Medicine and Dentistry Public Health and Health Policy

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Cohort study of trials submitted to ethics committee identified discrepant reporting of outcomes in publications

Authors

Shelagh Redmond, Erik von Elm, Anette Blümle, Malou Gengler, Thomas Gsponer, Matthias Egger,