International Dialogue on the Public Reporting Of Clinical Trial Outcome and Results – PROCTOR Meeting

Abstract

On the 28th and 29th March 2008, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), held a meeting on clinical trial results reporting in Ottawa.The meeting was called PROCTOR, an acronym for the Public Reporting Of Clinical Trials Outcomes and Results.The current system of reporting trial results requires change.Not all trials get reported and even those that do are often incompletely reported.The growing capacity of technology offers opportunities to complement reporting in traditional peer-reviewed journals with more detailed and widely accessible reporting of research results.The internet also allows data to be translated and packaged in various ways for different user groups.Identifying that we are at a crucial point for results reporting, CIHR decided to launch an international dialogue of constituencies interested in results reporting, aiming at contributing toward the development of international standards for results disclosure.This dialogue builds on the rich experience gained during the development of Ottawa Statements (http://ottawagroup.ohri. ca/) and the World Health Organization International Standards of Trial Registration (http:// www.who.int/ictrp/en/), also taking into account the plethora of guidelines and statements from groups such as CONSORT (www.consort-state- ment.org), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (http://www.icmje.org/clin_ trial07.pdf),and the International Conference on Harmonization (http://www.ich.org).

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