Ottawa Group news

• 19 June 2009 Ottawa Group’s submitted recommendations on the Expansion of the Clinical Trial Registry and Results Data Bank.
  
  In the process of the implementation of the FDAAA, the NIH and FDA organized the Public Meeting on Expansion of the Clinical Trial Registry and Results Data Bank, on 20th April 2009, in Washington. Public was invited to submit their written comments and to participate in a discussion following the presentations of the Registry’s expansion and creation of the results databank.
  
  The following written recommendations were submitted: Comment from Karmela Krleza-Jeric, Ottawa Group.
  
  
• April 2009 Krleza-Jeric K, Lemmens T. 7th Revision of the Declaration of Helsinki: Good News for the Transparency of Clinical Trials. Croat Med J. 2009; 50: 105-10. Link to video anouncement.
  
  
• 3 May 2009 Ottawa group dialogue on principles of public disclosure of trial results – open meeting is scheduled for Sunday, 3 May from in Atlanta Georgia, during the SCT Annual meeting. The meeting will be in two parts: from 15:00-17:00 (3-5 PM) in the Cottonwood room B and from 17:15- 19:00 (5:15 to 7PM) in the Cottonwood room A. More information here.
  
  
• 2-6 May 2009 The 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials, Atlanta Georgia, USA.
  • International Aspects of Public Disclosure of Results of Clinical Trials, Session IIIE, Tuesday 5th at 13:20: Karmela Krleza-Jeric, Madeleine Boscoe, Christian Gluud, Steve Goodman, Craig Metz/ Frank Rokckhold, Ida Sim, Tikki Pang. Abstract available here after the meeting.
  • The SPIRIT Initiative: Defining Standard Protocol Items For Randomised Trials; Session IIE An-Wen Chan, Mayo Clinic. Abstract available here after the meeting.
  
  
• August 2007 Ottawa group submitted the recommendations for the evaluation of the Declaration of Helsinki to both World Medical Association (WMA) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).
  
  
• 27 October 2006 Ottawa Group dialogue on principles of registration of trial results - open meeting is scheduled for Friday 27 October in Dublin from 11:00- 15:30, and can be found on the Cochrane Colloquium Web site.
  
  Ottawa Group members discussed the reporting of results and addressed some of unfinished issues of the OS 2 on principles of operationalisation of trial registration. The summary of that discussion is avaialble here.
  
  
• 10 Jan 2006 A draft of the Ottawa statement part 2 is now available for comments and endorsement!!
  
  

Other news

• 28 and 29 March 2008 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), held a meeting on clinical trial results reporting in Ottawa. The meeting was called PROCTOR, an acronym for the Public Reporting Of Clinical Trials Outcomes and Results. A report on the meeting is available here as it will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Croatian Medical Journal.
  
  
• 30 November 2007 A meeting of registries’ network, of the WHO trial registration platform, ICTRP, WHO/HQ, Geneva.
  
  
• 28 and 29 November 2007 The 4th Scientific Advisory Group (SAG) Meeting of the ICRTP, WHO/HQ Geneva.
  
  
• 20-23 May 2007 The 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials, Montreal, Canada:
  • Global Clinical trial registration: Where we are and where we are heading; Invited session organized by Dickersin K, Krleza-Jeric K, Ghersi D, Nair, A, Vaugham B.
  • The Ottawa statement: Principles and implementation of clinical trial registration and results reporting, Krleza-Jeric K., Dickersin K, Chan AW, Goodyear M., Grimshaw J., Gluud C, and Sim I. A poster presentation on behalf of the Ottawa group. Abstract available here.
  
  
  
• October 2006 As we learned that many Ottawa group members would not be able to attend the meeting in Dublin, and as some issues merited broader discussion, we invited everyone to use our website and thus contribute to the development of the Ottawa Statement 3 on principles of implementation of registration and disclosure of trial results
  
  
• 30 March 2006 An invitation from the WHO Registry Platform to Ottawa Group members
  
  
• 23 May 2005 Ottawa Group opens a dialogue on operationalisation of trial registration priciples, Portland, OR
  • Invitation to Participate
  • Report on Portland Meeting and Proposed Next Steps
  • Updated Portland Table, Comparison of Protocol Items
  
  
  
• 22-25 May 2005 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials, Inc., Portland Oregon
  
  
• 2005 National Breast Cancer Coalition statement on trial registration being one of its five legislative priorities for 2005.
  
  
• 26 July 2004 - Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Joins in the International Registration of Randomised Controlled Trials
  
  
• 26 July 2004 - Cochrane Collaboration statement on registering clinical trials prospectively
  
  
• WHO meeting
  
  
• ICMJE meeting