Guidance and Helpful Tips
Guidance and Helpful Tips for Registering, Updating and Reporting Results on ClinicalTrials.gov
| For CTgov assistance, including: accessing/becoming a ClinicalTrials.gov user, registration of a clinical study to obtain the NCT identifier required by the IRB for all clinical trials, resetting a forgotten password, reporting results for registered studies, posting required documents, and scheduling an individual or group CTgov training session/s for PIs/researchers and research team members at BMC and BU Medical Campus, contact the PRS Administrator (Karla Damus, damusk@bu.edu, 617 358 5337). |
BUMC/BMC HRPP policies related to clnicaltrials.gov [Section 6.6.9 Registering, Updating, and Posting Requirements for Clinical Trials]
FAQs- ClinicalTrials.gov provides a regularly updated, comprehensive list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) that provide the latest information about most topics and for additional questions, contact the PRS Administrator [damusk@vu.edu] or email ClinicalTrials.gov at register@clinicaltrials.gov
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ClinicalTrials.gov Modernization Initiative 2019-2024 The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has launched an effort to modernize ClinicalTrials.gov to deliver an improved user experience on an updated platform that will accommodate growth and enhance efficiency. Information related to this effort can be accessed on this page.
Please note: Posting results on CTgov [which is required for all Applicable Clinical Trials [ACTs] and for any clinical trial that receives NIH funding after Jan 17, 2017] is NOT considered to be prior publication. http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/clinical-trial-registration.html (paragraph 3 in Section 1)
Data sharing required by ICMJE
- As of 1 July 2018 manuscripts submitted to ICMJE journals that report the results of clinical trials must contain a data sharing statement.
- Clinical trials that begin enrolling participants on or after 1 January 2019 must include a data sharing plan in the trial’s registration. If the data sharing plan changes after registration this should be reflected in the statement submitted and published with the manuscript, and updated in the registry record.
Data sharing statements must indicate the following: whether individual de-identified participant data (including data dictionaries) will be shared (“undecided” is not an acceptable answer); what data in particular will be shared; whether additional, related documents will be available (e.g., study protocol, statistical analysis plan, etc.); when the data will become available and for how long; by what access criteria data will be shared (including with whom, for what types of analyses, and by what mechanism).
Data sharing plan examples – http://www.icmje.org/news-and-editorials/data_sharing_june_2017.pdf
CTgov Related Articles
Links to scholarly publications about ClinicalTrials.gov and clinical research, written by ClinicalTrials.gov staff and others by year of the publications can be accessed through this link. Titles of journal articles link to the PubMed® abstract for the publication, when available. Links to full-text versions of articles that are available for free are also provided.
CTgov informational podcast presented by Anna M. Fine, PharmD, MS, Acting Director CTgov on 6/15/2023 about ‘What Researchers and Recipients Should Know about ClinicalTrials.gov‘
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