Surgical clinical trials—need for international collaboration

Between 2007 and 2013, 6957 surgical clinical trials were published in journals indexed in the Web of Science; however, only 1241 (17·8%) were done by international collaborations, although authors were affiliated in 90 different countries. [...]collaborative research was done mostly by investigator...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 382; no. 9908; pp. 1875 - 1876
Main Authors Huamaní, Charles, González-Alcaide, Gregorio
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 07.12.2013
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Biomedical Research - standards
Clinical trials
Collaboration
General Surgery - standards
Humans
Internal Medicine
International
International Cooperation
South America
North America
Europe
Africa
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Summary:Between 2007 and 2013, 6957 surgical clinical trials were published in journals indexed in the Web of Science; however, only 1241 (17·8%) were done by international collaborations, although authors were affiliated in 90 different countries. [...]collaborative research was done mostly by investigators in Europe and North America (figure).
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62618-5