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ArticleJournal of abnormal psychology2019

The registration continuum in clinical science: A guide toward transparent practices.

Stephen D Benning, Rachel L Bachrach, Edward A Smith, Andrew J Freeman, Aidan G C Wright

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Article in Journal of abnormal psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Stephen D BenningDepartment of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.ORCID 0000-0002-0955-1592
Rachel L BachrachInterdisciplinary Addiction Program for Education and Research, Center for Health Equity and Research Promotion, Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System.
Edward A SmithDepartment of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.ORCID 0000-0003-4152-9659
Andrew J FreemanDepartment of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Aidan G C WrightDepartment of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh.

Funding

National Institute of Mental HealthNIMH NIH HHS L30 MH101760
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical scientists can use a continuum of registration efforts that vary in their disclosure and timing relative to data collection and analysis. Broadly speaking, registration benefits investigators by offering stronger, more powerful tests of theory with particular methods in tandem with better control of long-run false positive error rates. Registration helps clinical researchers in thinking through tensions between bandwidth and fidelity that surround recruiting participants, defining clinical phenotypes, handling comorbidity, treating missing data, and analyzing rich and complex data. In particular, registration helps record and justify the reasons behind specific study design decisions, though it also provides the opportunity to register entire decision trees with specific endpoints. Creating ever more faithful registrations and standard operating procedures may offer alternative methods of judging a clinical investigator's scientific skill and eminence because study registration increases the transparency of clinical researchers' work. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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PMID31368732
PMCPMC6677163

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