Trial registration is also being used in some countries to improve the planning and reporting of ethical considerations such as informed consent, funding sources and ethics committee approval [ 39].
Although normative or especially ethical aspects are rarely explicitly mentioned in these checklists, they include implicit normative items such as asking for ethical approval, informed consent, funding or possible sources of bias.
Details of the primary studies' aims, informed consent, and funding sources can be found in Table 1.
This would require details of ethics committees, informed consent and funding sources in addition to the use of CONSORT checklists and flow diagrams.
The following data were included: 1) year of publication, 2) country affiliations of first, corresponding and middle authors, 3) country affiliations of participating centers and additional investigators (where available), 4) trial characteristics, 5) types of treatment, 6) documentation of ethics, informed consent and funding sources, and 7) whether relevance of study to LMCs was discussed.
We conducted dozens of interviews with informed consent of fund managers and investees across the five funds and complementary stagnant technology sites, and conducted site visits to the fund and stagnant technology sites between 2007 and 2009; secondary analysis was also done of peer-reviewed literature, articles, news items and web sites.
After joining the government, in 2011, Hezbollah deputies consented to fund the U.N. tribunal investigating Hariri's murder the same tribunal that had indicted Hezbollah's operatives.
After joining the government, in 2011, Hezbollah deputies consented to fund the U.N. tribunal investigating Hariri's murder — the same tribunal that had indicted Hezbollah's operatives.
If patients consented, sickness funds were asked to list all sick leave and hospitalization days with the respective diagnoses codes during the 3 months after rehabilitation treatment (reference period).
These challenges are not limited to informed consent practices, industry funding, and placebo use.
There is also planning consent and a funding in place for a technology park.
