Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
The American Journal of Transplantation
The American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Kidney International
Transplantation
Medical research can be seriously compromised by the selective publication of clinical trial results. Therefore, it is imperative that information regarding clinical trials should be available to the general public.
We require, as a condition of consideration for publication, registration in a public trials registry. Trials must register at or before the onset of patient enrolment. This policy applies to any clinical trial starting enrolment after 1 January 2006. For trials that began enrolment before this date, we require registration by 1 April 2006 before considering the trial for publication.
We define a clinical trial as any research project that prospectively assigns human subjects to intervention or comparison groups to study the cause-and-effect relationship between a medical intervention and a health outcome. Studies designed for other purposes, such as to study pharmacokinetics or major toxicity (e.g. phase 1 trials) are exempt.
We do not advocate one particular registry, but registration must be with a registry that meets the following minimum criteria:
Registries that currently meet these criteria include:
13 January 2005