Open AccessAssessing the Eventual Publication of Clinical Trial Abstracts Submitted to a Large Annual Oncology Meeting
Author(s) -
Massey Paul R.,
Wang Ruibin,
Prasad Vinay,
Bates Susan E.,
Fojo Tito
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the oncologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.176
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1549-490X
pISSN - 1083-7159
DOI - 10.1634/theoncologist.2015-0516
Subject(s) - medicine , randomized controlled trial , clinical trial , clinical oncology , odds ratio , medline , publication bias , oncology , cancer , political science , law
Despite the ethical imperative to publish clinical trials when human subjects are involved, such data frequently remain unpublished. The objectives were to tabulate the rate and ascertain factors associated with eventual publication of clinical trial results reported as abstracts in the Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (American Society of Clinical Oncology).