Survey on Use of Trial Results from Clinical Trials Registries: Your Input is Needed!

Needed 11 Oct 2024

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Survey on Use of Trial Results from Clinical Trials Registries: Your Input is Needed!

Skills / interests: Statistical analysis, Data extraction, Guideline development, Searching for evidence, Methodological peer review, Data analysis and organisation

Methodological skills / interests: Prospective meta-analysis, Individual participant data meta-analysis, Statistics, Qualitative evidence synthesis, Information retrieval, Comparing multiple interventions (network meta-analysis and overviews)

Are you an evidence enthusiast who uses evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for various purposes, such as conducting systematic reviews? We invite you to participate in our survey, which aims to understand how the results of randomized controlled trials could be used and accessed through clinical trial registries. Your participation would provide valuable insights into the current practices, challenges, and potential improvements in the dissemination and utilization of RCT results from registries.

The survey consists of a series of multiple choice questions (with optional free text) and should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.

Interested? For more information and to start the survey, please follow this link.

This study is being conducted by the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht, Netherlands, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Sydney, Australia, and the WHO ICTRP Registries Network. Our protocol is registered on the Open Science Framework.

Note: This research is approved by the Quality assurance office Research, Univeristy Medical Center Utrecht (#24U-1501).

Ideal applicant

This survey specifically targets evidence users. Evidence users are researchers that seek to obtain and use evidence from trials for a variety of reasons, such as to inform systematic reviews and meta-analyses or to calculate required sample sizes for future trials.