Missing trial results: analysis of the current publication rate of studies in pediatric dialysis from 2003 to 2020.
Christian PatryAlexander FichtnerBritta HöckerMarkus RiesClaus Peter SchmittBurkhard TönshoffPublished in: Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) (2022)
Currently, only 52.8% of all investigated studies in pediatric dialysis have available results, and the overall median time to publication did not meet FDA requirements. This might introduce a publication bias into the field, and it might negatively impact clinical decision-making in this critical subspecialty of pediatric medicine. A higher resolution version of the Graphical abstract is available as Supplementary information.