BACKGROUND The International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) was launched in February 2011 to increase transparency of systematic reviews (SRs). There have been few investigations of the content and use of the database. We aimed to investigate the number of PROSPERO registrations from inception to 2017, and website usage in the last year. We also aimed to explore the epide...

Methods We aimed to organize the existing case law in a database, which represents a prerequisite for further steps to elucidate the epidemiological process. We established three groups of patients: 1. Registered in the 1987-1993 period, which is the main cohort of children infected through nosocomial transmission – included in Study I, retrospective. 2. Registered in the 2008-2012 period – inc...

BACKGROUND Result publication is the key step to improve the transparency of clinical trials. OBJECTIVE To investigate the result publication rate of Chinese trials registered in World Health Organization (WHO) primary registries. METHOD We searched 11 WHO primary registries for Chinese trials records. The progress of each trial was analyzed. We searched for the full texts of result publica...

BACKGROUND Registration can help with transparency of acupuncture clinical trials (ACTs) by making protocol information and results available to the public. Recently, the number of registered ACTs has increased greatly, but only a few researchers have focused on the quality of ACTs registration. This review provides the first assessment of the registration quality of ACTs and the baseline infor...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of data on acute myocardial infarction deaths from mortality information systems. METHODS Data on in-hospital acute myocardial infarction mortality collected from database of the Mortality Information System (SIM) and Hospital Information System (SIH), in 2000, were analyzed. Then data collected from medical records from two hospitals affiliated to the Unifie...

In this second article on the commitment to patient care the methodology and results of the study are briefly described and discussed. The research method was a non-experimental qualitative survey, using several data-gathering methods such as semi-structured interviews with registered nurses and patients, the examination of nurses' and patients' records and non-participant observations. Althoug...

OBJECTIVE To explore what can be learnt about the current composition of the "global landscape" of health research and development (R&D) from data on the World Health Organization's International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP). METHODS A random 5% sample of the records of clinical trials that were registered as interventional and actively recruiting was taken from the ICTRP databas...

BACKGROUND The incidence and mortality from ischemic heart disease (IHD) in Japan seem to be among the lowest of all the industrialized countries, but there are few reliable registers of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). METHODS AND RESULTS To assess the incidence of AMI in Takashima County, Shiga, Japan, from 1988 to 1998 and compare the data with similar registers in the world, cases of AM...

irrigation management transfer to farmers is one of the important and necessary issues for irrigation planners globally. irrigation management transfer or participatory irrigation management by water users’ associations (wua) is a widespread strategy in the world and a good way to remove the country's irrigation and drainage systems problems. the main objective of this research was respons...