Does the registry meet the requirements of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)?
There is considerable international pressure to develop national clinical trials registers. • Many of the editors of the most prestigious international journals have announced that from 1st July 2005 that they will not publish articles reporting on unregistered clinical trials. • In response to this and the strongly negative public reaction to the lack of full disclosure of the adverse affects of some drugs, the Americans and British have recently developed national registries. • In 2007 the World Health Organisation (WHO) developed the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) which links the national registers, providing an international resource on clinical trials. The ICTRP Search Portal can be found at www.who.int/trialsearch. The Australian Clinical Trials Registry is consistent with the requirements set out by the ICMJE and WHO trials portal. In 2006, the ANZCTR became an ICMJE acceptable registry and in early 2007, the ANZCTR became one of the first Primary Regist
