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Barriers to and facilitators of interventions to counter publication bias: thematic analysis of scholarly articles and stakeholder interviews.

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2014-11-13
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Kien, Christina
Nußbaumer, Barbara
Thaler, Kylie J
Griebler, Ursula
Van Noord, Megan G
Wagner, Petra
Gartlehner, Gerald
UNCOVER Project Consortium
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BACKGROUND: When the nature and direction of research results affect their chances of publication, a distortion of the evidence base - termed publication bias - results. Despite considerable recent efforts to implement measures to reduce the non-publication of trials, publication bias is still a major problem in medical research. The objective of our study was to identify barriers to and facilitators of interventions to prevent or reduce publication bias. METHODS: We systematically reviewed the scholarly literature and extracted data from articles. Further, we performed semi-structured interviews with stakeholders. We performed an inductive thematic analysis to identify barriers to and facilitators of interventions to counter publication bias. RESULTS: The systematic review identified 39 articles. Thirty-four of 89 invited interview partners agreed to be interviewed. We clustered interventions into four categories: prospective trial registration, incentives for reporting in peer-reviewed journals or research reports, public availability of individual patient-level data, and peer-review/editorial processes. Barriers we identified included economic and personal interests, lack of financial resources for a global comprehensive trial registry, and different legal systems. Facilitators identified included: raising awareness of the effects of publication bias, providing incentives to make data publically available, and implementing laws to enforce prospective registration and reporting of clinical trial results. CONCLUSIONS: Publication bias is a complex problem that reflects the complex system in which it occurs. The cooperation amongst stakeholders to increase public awareness of the problem, better tailoring of incentives to publish, and ultimately legislative regulations have the greatest potential for reducing publication bias.
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Journal article
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Biomedical Research
Humans
Peer Review
Prospective Studies
Publication Bias
Publishing
Registries
Research Report
Surveys and Questionnaires
United Kingdom
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/11192
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10.1186/s12913-014-0551-z
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Kien, Christina; Nußbaumer, Barbara; Thaler, Kylie J; Griebler, Ursula; Van Noord, Megan G; Wagner, Petra; ... UNCOVER Project Consortium (2014). Barriers to and facilitators of interventions to counter publication bias: thematic analysis of scholarly articles and stakeholder interviews. BMC Health Serv Res, 14. pp. 551. 10.1186/s12913-014-0551-z. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/11192.
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Megan Van Noord

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MSIS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill BA, University of California, Santa BarbaraMegan received her Master’s degree in Information Science and Certificate in Interdisciplinary Health Communication in 2008. She has worked at Duke since January 2014. Before joining Duke, she worked as a Research Associate and Information Specialist at the Austrian Cochrane Branch and the Department for Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Danube University, Krems,
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