Issues in the registration of clinical trials

Article Abstract:

The status of trial registration efforts and the challenges in developing a comprehensive system of trial registration and reporting of results is reviewed. The key challenges include the need to minimize inadvertent duplicate registrations, to ensure that interventions have unique names, and to have a search engine that identifies all trial that meet a user's specifications.

United States, General services, Data Processing Services, Data processing and preparation, Health Industry DP Services, Usage, Evaluation, Clinical trials, Company systems management, Information management, Online health care service, Online health care information services, Medical information management services

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Researchers study health effects of environmental change

Article Abstract:

The effects that global environmental changes have on human well-being and longevity were discussed by epidemiologists in June at the 2006 Congress of Epidemiology. It was suggested that epidemiologists should conduct more epidemiological research to understand the issues better, inform the public and enact change.

Management dynamics, Health aspects, Practice, Epidemiologists, Environmental degradation

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