Registered Reports

Editorial: Introducing Registered Reports

The way we do science is rather stereotyped. We have hypotheses to test, and we plan the experiments, sometimes a long time ahead, to test these hypotheses. Writing a grant proposal is a typical example: we give a detailed plan of what we are going to do in the coming years. Of course, we never know how a project will evolve, and deviations from the original plan are commonplace, as milestones ...

Registered reports: a new publishing initiative at Cortex.

Medical evaluation of overweight children and adolescents: reports from pediatricians, pediatric nurse practitioners, and registered dietitians.

OBJECTIVE The primary aim of this study was to determine how pediatric health care providers identify overweight in children and adolescents and how they evaluate obesity-related medical complications. This information can guide development of programs to help providers improve their evaluation practices. A secondary objective was to examine the association of certain provider characteristics w...

Treatment of child and adolescent obesity: reports from pediatricians, pediatric nurse practitioners, and registered dietitians.

OBJECTIVE The primary aim of this study was to identify interventions used by pediatric health care providers in treatment of overweight children and adolescents to identify provider educational needs. A secondary aim was to examine the association of certain provider characteristics with recommended evaluation practices. STUDY DESIGN A random sample of pediatricians, pediatric nurse practiti...

Accessibility of trial reports for drugs stalling in development: a systematic assessment of registered trials.

OBJECTIVE To quantify the proportion of trials for unsuccessfully licensed drugs that are not published. DESIGN A systematic assessment of the availability of published research reports for publicly registered trials testing drugs stalling in clinical development ("stalled drugs") and drugs receiving regulatory licensure in the same time period ("licensed drugs"). DATA SOURCES Searches of c...