Critically however, the debate and those views are immaterial to reporting a trial.
When reporting a trial with treatment crossover, the authors should report the proportion of switchers, a summary of the distribution of switching times and any evidence of a relationship between switching and relevant prognostic variables.
For example, the case of the week might be asthma and the parallel course could include a critique of a paper reporting a trial of a treatment for asthma.
We may also, for variety, link research publications to the patient vignette by devices such as newspaper articles which the patient presents to the physician (e.g. reporting a trial), or say that in a patient problem the clinician has already found a Cochrane review.
As described in the example above, journals reporting a trial's primary results can make the trial protocol available on their web site.
Although this is different than reporting a trial's source of funding, it supports the notion that failure to abide by journal disclosure requirements is common.
