ArticleJournal of evidence-based medicine2011
The ISRCTN Register: achievements and challenges 8 years on.
Article in Journal of evidence-based medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Prospective registration and outcome-reporting bias in randomized controlled trials of eczema treatments: a systematic review.The Journal of investigative dermatology · 2012Pooled it
- IsomiR Utility in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Prognostication.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- A review of sample sizes for UK pilot and feasibility studies on the ISRCTN registry from 2013 to 2020.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2023Review
- Setting the IMPACT (IMProve Access to Clinical Trial data) Observatory baseline.Biochemia medica · 2018Review
- Worldwide trends in volume and quality of published protocols of randomized controlled trials.PloS one · 2017Article
- From protocol to published report: a study of consistency in the reporting of academic drug trials.Trials · 2016Article
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- Five years of Trials.Trials · 2011Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The ISRCTN register has been operational for the past 8 years and is approaching 10,000 trial records. It complies with international guidelines and pools its data in the International Trial Search Portal initiated by the World Health Organisation. Through its ongoing collaboration with the Department of Health in England, the register has been able to participate in a national initiative aiming to bring clinical trials to the attention of a wider public with the objective of maximising participation. As part of BioMed Central, the register provides the first step in the concept of threaded publications, enabling the tracking of clinical research studies from inception and the linking of all resulting publications including the raw data where this is available.
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Registered trials
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