Mobile apps and web-based tools are at hand to facilitate or assist in multiple areas of life. Digital health solutions are in the limelight, and allow, among other things, the tracking of diet and physical activity. However, the future of eHealth lies not only in providing tools to track healthy habits, but also in the remote interaction between patient and physician.
A systematic review published today in Trials looks at 121 randomized control trials (RCTs) performed in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in order to find ways to reduce research waste, a major problem in an area with limited research resources. Here to tell us about the findings and how the value of RCTs in SSA can be improved is author of the study, Lee Aymar Ndounga Diakou.
In this blog we take a look at the gestational diabetes studies and clinical trials registered in the ISRCTN registry.
Links between registration records of clinical trials and their published results are essential for assessing publication bias and reporting bias. Unfortunately these links are often missing. Here, Rabia Bashir and Adam G. Dunn, authors of an article published today in Systematic Reviews, talk about the processes researchers use to find trial reports from registration records, through links and manual searching, and discuss why it’s vital to have a reliable infrastructure in place.