Coordinated Assessment of Notifications of Trials Containing Overt Published Errors

Imperial College London

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Heart Failure

Treatments: Behavioral: Reporting of discrepancy to journal

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01901523

ICCH/13/SFI/Str

Details and patient eligibility

About

Clinical research, like all science, is self-correcting, with errors detected by the scientific community and communicated to the publishing journals, which then relay the information (and its resolution) to its readers. If this relaying process fails, science grinds to a halt. In this study we are testing its integrity.

Full description

This prospective study documents the outcome of notification to journal editorial boards (or equivalent authorities) of factually incorrect or inconsistent claims, in reports they have published.

Enrollment: 15 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Report of a clinical trial in humans of treatment of heart disease with bone marrow derived stem cells
• Report containing discrepancy by reference to same report or another report

Exclusion criteria

• Discrepancy has already been corrected by an erratum

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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15 participants in 1 patient group

Provision of information

Experimental group

Description:

Reporting of discrepancy to journal

Treatment:

Behavioral: Reporting of discrepancy to journal