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Another source of unpublished data was from open access collections.
Respondents who did search for and obtain data were asked to provide a citation for their work and to state their primary source of unpublished data.
Recently, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published guidelines stating that results from conference abstracts should be included in systematic reviews because conference abstracts provide an important source of unpublished trials [ 1].
We therefore suggest that the Cochrane handbook should mention regulatory agencies as a source of unpublished data and provide specific guidance on how to search the websites of the FDA and EMA as they are difficult to access.
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We searched other electronic databases of trials including trial registers, sources of unpublished literature, and reference lists.
We searched the Cochrane Menstrual Disorders and Subfertility Specialized Register (10 April 2013), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (The Cochrane Library 2013, Issue 1), MEDLINE (1950 to 4 April 2013), EMBASE (1974 to 4 April 2013), and other electronic databases of trials including trial registers, sources of unpublished literature, and reference lists.
Systematic review including sources of unpublished data.
Manufacturers and regulatory agencies were seldom sources of unpublished data.
Manufacturers and regulatory agencies were uncommon sources of unpublished data.
Respondents could also provide information on secondary sources of unpublished data.
A standard literature review was conducted via PubMed databases, web-browsing for search terms, and personal inquiries by the authors into sources of unpublished information.
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