Responsibility/influence that different players could assume in the various steps of conducting a clinical trial and in the dissemination of clinical trial documents (Who?)
| Players in the dissemination process | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steps in trial conduct and dissemination | Researchers authors | Journal editors | Peer reviewers of journal articles | Funding agencies | Pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers | Research ethics committees | Research institutions | Regulatory agencies | Trial register | Decision making bodies* | Readers/patients/patient organisations/benefit assessment agencies/HTA bodies |
| Research idea/research question | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| Writing the study protocol | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| Registering the study in a trial register | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||
| Submitting the study protocol for a journal publication | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||
| Publishing the study protocol | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| Conducting the study/assessing outcome measures | x | x | |||||||||
| Analysing data | x | x | x | ||||||||
| Writing and submitting a journal article | x | x | |||||||||
| Peer review | x | x | |||||||||
| Publishing journal research | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||
*Decision-making authorities in healthcare systems (eg, legal entities, such as the Federal Joint Committee in Germany).