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- Title
Factors Associated With Failure to Publish Large Randomized Trials Presented at an Oncology Meeting.
- Authors
Krzyzanowska, Monika K.; Pintilie, Melania; Tannock, Ian F.
- Abstract
Context: Large clinical trials are the criterion standard for making treatment decisions, and nonpublication of the results of such trials can lead to bias in the literature and contribute to inappropriate medical decisions. Objectives: To determine the rate of full publication of large randomized trials presented at annual meetings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), quantify bias against publishing nonsignificant results, and identify factors associated with time to publication. Design: Survey of 510 abstracts from large (sample size, ≥200), phase 3, randomized controlled trials presented at ASCO meetings between 1989 and 1998. Trial results were classified as significant (P≤.05 for the primary outcome measure) or nonsignificant (P>.05 or not reported), and the type of presentation and sponsorship were identified. Subsequent full publication was identified using a search of MEDLINE and EMBASE, completed November 1, 2001; the search was updated in November 2002, using the Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials. Authors were contacted if the searches did not find evidence of publication. Main Outcome Measures: Publication rate at 5 years; time from presentation to full publication. Results: Of 510 randomized trials, 26% were not published in full within 5 years after presentation at the meeting. Eighty-one percent of the studies with significant results had been published by this time compared with 68% of the studies with nonsignificant results (P<.001). Studies with oral or plenary presentation were published sooner than those not presented (P = .002), and studies with pharmaceutical sponsorship were published sooner than studies with cooperative group sponsorship or studies for which sponsorship was not specified (P = .02). These factors remained significant in a multivariable model. The most frequent reason cited by authors for not publishing was lack of time, funds, or other resources. Conclusions: A substantial number of...
- Subjects
MEDICAL publishing; CLINICAL trials; ONCOLOGY; MEDICAL research; MEDICAL literature; PUBLISHING
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2003, Vol 290, Issue 4, p495
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.290.4.495