TY - JOUR
TI - Hepato-biliary clinical trials and their inclusion in the Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group register and reviews
AU - Klingenberg, S.L.
AU - Nikolova, D.
AU - Alexakis, N.
AU - Als-Nielsen, B.
AU - Colli, A.
AU - Conte, D.
AU - D'Amico, G.
AU - Davidson, B.
AU - Fingerhut, A.
AU - Fraquelli, M.
AU - Gluud, L.L.
AU - Gurusamy, K.
AU - Keus, F.
AU - Khan, S.
AU - Koretz, R.
AU - van Laarhoven, C.
AU - Liu, J.
AU - Myers, R.
AU - Pagliaro, L.
AU - Simonetti, R.
AU - Sutton, R.
AU - Thorlund, K.
AU - Gluud, C.
JO - Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)
PY - 2011
VL - 26
TODO - 4
SP - 649-656
PB - Blackwell Publishing Inc.
SN - null
TODO - 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2010.06465.x
TODO - alcohol liver disease;  bile duct stone;  biliary tract surgery;  clinical research;  Cochrane Library;  controlled clinical trial (topic);  esophagus varices;  gallstone;  hepatic encephalopathy;  hepatobiliary disease;  liver cancer;  liver cirrhosis;  liver failure;  liver surgery;  medical society;  meta analysis (topic);  nonalcoholic fatty liver;  priority journal;  publication;  randomized controlled trial (topic);  review;  sclerosing cholangitis;  stomach varices;  systematic review (topic);  virus hepatitis
TODO - Background and Aims: The Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group (CHBG) is one of the 52 collaborative review groups within The Cochrane Collaboration. The activities of the CHBG focus on collecting hepato-biliary randomized clinical trials (RCT) and controlled clinical trials (CCT), and including them in systematic reviews with meta-analyses of the trials. In this overview, we present the growth of The CHBG Controlled Trials Register, as well as the systematic reviews that have been produced since March 1996. Results: The CHBG register includes almost 11000 RCT and 700 CCT publications. The earliest RCT in the register were published in 1955, and the earliest CCT in 1945. From 1945 to 1980, there were less than 100 publications each year. From 1981 to 1997, their number increased from over 100 to 600 a year. After 1997, the number of publications seems to have been decreasing. The CHBG has published 199 protocols for systematic reviews and 107 systematic reviews through to August 2009 in which 21% of the RCT and CCT were included. The CHBG reviews have been cited approximately 1200 times. Conclusions: A large amount of work has been carried out since 1996. However, there is still much to do, as the CHBG register contains a great number of RCT and CCT on topics that have not yet been systematically reviewed. © 2011 Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Foundation and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.
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