Prospective Clinical Trial Registration

Clinical trial registration.

Prospective registration of clinical trials.

The news that the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Physiotherapy is moving to require that trials submitted for publication provide evidence of prospective registration in a publicly-accessible register is welcome as it indicates that specialist journals are now following the lead of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. In September 2004, the Committee decreed tha...

Clinical trial registration: internal conflict?

To the Editor: To assure transparency and reporting of all conducted clinical trials, in 2004, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) announced its statement on clinical trial registration (1). According to this statement, any clinical trial should be registered before its beginning in certain registries, so that researchers can be aware of its progress and results at di...

Clinical trial registration--now required.

Clinical Trial Registration: The Time Has Come….

Note from the AJOT Editor-in-Chief: AJOT has joined several other major rehabilitation and disability journals in a collaborative initiative to mandate clinical trial registration. Authors of manuscripts reporting clinical trials must ensure that the trials are registered before submitting their manuscript. For trials that are underway and are already enrolling patients, registration will be re...