When you’re interested in trials, not papers: Browse by Trial
| 6 December, 2013 | Adie Chan |
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We’ve introduced a new feature to F1000Trials – the ability to browse by clinical trial name using the trial registry number.
To reduce bias and promote transparency in research, most medical journals require clinical trials to be registered in a trial registry, such as ClinicalTrials.Gov. Registered trials are given a trial name and a unique registry number. But one trial often generates several articles – it might prompt a study protocol or design paper, then one or more results papers and various clinical follow-up studies, as well as other analyses or spin-off studies using data from the trial. These articles may appear in several journals over several years, and the title of each article will diverge from that of the original trial record. While individual articles about a trial may be important to many readers, for clinicians and health policy makers finding all articles about a particular trial (or a particular treatment) is even more important. Furthermore, it can often take several years before the results from a registered trial appears in journal publications.
F1000Trials already provides a ‘publication thread’ in the ‘Related articles’ tab on the article’s page in F1000Trials, of articles explicitly about the same trial. We’ve extended this functionality by enabling F1000Trials to be browsed by ‘Trial’ as well as by ‘Article’.
Under the ‘Trials’ tab, all articles associated with a trial registry number or trial name are listed together underneath the trial details.
This trial has so far generated two articles. As more articles are added, they too will appear underneath the trial’s name and registry number with the others.
You can also sort trials under the ‘Trials’ tab using the dropdown menu, allowing you to sort by article date, review date and trial name (alphabetically).
Don’t forget – you can also use Advanced Search if you’re looking for articles associated with a particular drug or disease area, or a trial name or registry number. We hope these features will make it as easy as possible for you to find articles about the trials you’re interested in.
If you have any feedback for our beta site, we’d love to hear from you – simply use the feedback button on the icon bar.
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