Sentence examples for reference to trial from inspiring English sources

Twenty-six journals (47.3%) made some kind of reference to trial registration, either by directly or indirectly referring to the URM in their author instructions (table 2).

The likelihood of a direct reference to trial registration was significantly higher with increasing IF (p=0.015).

Studies were found through systematic search (PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library), and data combined for analysis where there was clinical homogeneity, with especial reference to trial duration.

Thus, six journals (10.9%) gave an indirect reference to trial registration by mentioning the URM exclusively in the context of general manuscript preparation (table 2).

If trial registration was either required or recommended or if the guidelines mentioned the URM in the context of trial registration, we classified the journal as 'direct reference to trial registration'.

If the guidelines mentioned the URM in the context of general manuscript preparation without other editorial advice on trial registration, we classified it as 'indirect reference to trial registration'.

However, such efforts are not always successful, with the treatment assignment (radical prostatectomy versus observation) being correctly guessed for over two-thirds of cases in the PIVOT trial, despite references to trial arm being redacted before notes were sent to the endpoint committee [ 23].

In later trials, more concerted efforts have been taken to conceal trial arm and screening status from reviewers, through the submission of edited copies of the clinical record, with all personal identifiers and references to trial arm or screening status removed [ 1, 2, 4].

As well as seeking explicit references to trial registration, we looked to see whether journal instructions mentioned the Declaration of Helsinki because the most recent (2008) version states that "Every clinical trial must be registered in a publicly accessible database before recruitment of the first subject".

In his closing speech of the five-week trial, Schneider made reference to the trial being held a New York courtroom, just a few streets from the scene of the World Trade Center attacks in September 2001.

The application of this principle of normal activities (presumed to be more general than the principle of congenericity in the selection of a QSAR school and predicting molecules) is shown in Figure 2, with reference to the trial and test molecules of Tables 1 and 2, respectively.