The Oxford database of perinatal trials: Developing a register of published reports of controlled trials

Iain Chalmers, Jini Hetherington, Malcolm Newdick, Lesley Mutch, Adrian Grant, Murray Enkin, Eleanor Enkin, Kay Dickersin

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Abstract

A database of perinatal trials is currently being established to provide a resource for reviews of the safety and efficacy of interventions used in perinatal care and to foster cooperative and coordinated research efforts in the perinatal field. The database will ultimately comprise four main elements: (1) a register of published reports of trials; (2) a register of unpublished trials; (3) a register of ongoing and planned trials; and (4) data derived from pooled overviews (meta-analyses) of trials. This article describes the development of the first of these four elements.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)306-324
Number of pages19
JournalControlled clinical trials
Volume7
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1986

Keywords

  • collaborative research
  • controlled clinical trials
  • meta-analysis
  • perinatal

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Pharmacology

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