The 102 unpublished summaries, however, included data on an additional 20 084 drug-treated participants.
For each of the six drugs included in this analysis, table 1 summarises trial characteristics as reported in trial summaries, their associated journal articles and the additional trial summaries having no associated journal article (referred to as unpublished trial summary on all tables and appendices).
The provision of some unpublished grouped summary data also enabled us to examine age specific prevalence.
The unpublished GSK summary report will be referred to as Hamard [ 24].
Ultimately, 6 publications and 1 unpublished GSK summary report (Table 1) were identified for the meta-analysis to support primary efficacy.
The median study length was shorter in journal articles (11 weeks) than in their paired trial summaries (12 weeks) or unpublished trial summaries (16 weeks).
The dicentric GCRs analyzed were selected from a collection of 141 previously published predicted dicentric GCRs that arose in a broad diversity of genetic backgrounds ([30], and unpublished data); a summary of the types of predicted dicentric GCRs and the genetic backgrounds in which they arose is presented in Table S1.
Sadguru Netra Chikitsalaya in Chitrakook, northern India estimated the cost of cataract case finding and transportation as US$18.30 [Personal communication, Sadguru Netra Chikitsalaya. Unpublished, administrative data summary available on request. Accessed November, 2008].
They estimated the total cost of case finding of a cataract patient, which included the cost of providing non-cataract related diagnosis treatment, of $US 2.64 and transporting them to and from hospital of $US 3.00 [Personal communication, Aravind Eye Care System. Unpublished, administrative data summary available on request. Accessed November 2008].
Finally, we searched on the web using Google for grey literature (e.g., technical reports, program evaluations and summaries, unpublished data; no date restrictions).
A summary is: unpublished working papers and dissertations/reports with dates prior to year 2000 (11 items); and unpublished working papers and dissertations/reports with dates from 2000-2012 (22 items).
