CommentaryPolicy
Making Prospective Registration of Observational Research a Reality
- Rafael Dal-Ré1,*,†#,
- John P. Ioannidis2,*,†,
- Michael B. Bracken3,*,†,
- Patricia A. Buffler4,
- An-Wen Chan5,
- Eduardo L. Franco6,
- Carlo La Vecchia7 and
- Elisabete Weiderpass8
- 1Clinical Research Program, Pasqual Maragall Foundation, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain.
- 2Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, and Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Statistics, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, and Meta-research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
- 3Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510–3330, USA.
- 4Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720–6667, USA.
- 5Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Department of Medicine, and Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1N8, Canada.
- 6Departments of Oncology and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 1S6, Canada.
- 7Department of Epidemiology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri and Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan I-20156, Italy.
- 8Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm SE-17177, Sweden; Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo NO-0304, Norway; Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø NO-9037, Norway; and Samfundet Folkhälsan, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland.
- #Current address: BUC (Biosciences UAM+CSIC) Program, International Campus of Excellence, Universidad Autónoma, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
- †These authors contributed equally to this work.
- ↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: Rafael.dalre{at}fuam.uam.es (R.D.-R.); Michael.bracken{at}yale.edu (M.B.B.); jioannid{at}stanford.edu (J.P.I.)
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Science Translational Medicine 19 Feb 2014:
Vol. 6, Issue 224, pp. 224cm1
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3007513
Vol. 6, Issue 224, pp. 224cm1
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3007513
Rafael Dal-Ré
1Clinical Research Program, Pasqual Maragall Foundation, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain.
†These authors contributed equally to this work.
#Current address: BUC (Biosciences UAM+CSIC) Program, International Campus of Excellence, Universidad Autónoma, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
John P. Ioannidis
2Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, and Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine,
Department of Statistics, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, and Meta-research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
†These authors contributed equally to this work.
Michael B. Bracken
3Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510–3330,
USA.
†These authors contributed equally to this work.
Patricia A. Buffler
4Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720–6667, USA.
An-Wen Chan
5Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Department of Medicine, and Institute of Health Policy Management and
Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1N8, Canada.
Eduardo L. Franco
6Departments of Oncology and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 1S6, Canada.
Carlo La Vecchia
7Department of Epidemiology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri and Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of
Milan, Milan I-20156, Italy.
Elisabete Weiderpass
8Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm SE-17177, Sweden; Department of Research, Cancer Registry of
Norway, Oslo NO-0304, Norway; Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø NO-9037, Norway; and Samfundet
Folkhälsan, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland.
