ISRCTN FIELD DEFINITIONS
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TRIAL DETAILS
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: If your trial is also registered on the ClinicalTrials.gov website, please enter the identifier assigned to your trial in the format NCTXXXXXXXX.

Field limited to NCT + 8 digits.
Protocol/serial number: The number given to the trial by the funder or sponsor; please type N/A if not known.

Field limited to 200 characters.
Public title: This should be the brief/layperson title. Please note there is a character limit on this field; please keep information concise.

Field limited to 1000 characters.
Scientific title: This should be the scientific title of the trial, usually used for ethics approval or grant approval. Please note there is a character limit on this field; please keep information concise.

Field limited to 1000 characters.
Acronym (if available): Please enter the trial acronym if available. This should normally be a word formed from the letters of the words in the trial title; please type N/A if there is no acronym.

Field limited to 200 characters.
Study hypothesis: The principal question(s) or hypothesis addressed by the project. The data entered here should be as specific as the research design permits. Where a hypothesis is being tested, please enter the hypothesis.

For observational trials, the data entered here should be a rationale for why the trial is taking place, if no hypotheses are available.

No field limit.
Ethics approval: Please provide details of the full name of your ethics board, the date of approval, and any reference numbers attached to this approval. If you have no ethics approval yet, then please enter details of when and with whom you plan to submit.

No field limit.
Study design: Please specify whether the study is observational (e.g. cohort study, questionnaire) or interventional (giving details about allocation, masking, control and assignment e.g. 'randomised single-blind placebo-controlled cross-over study'). Please also specify whether the trial is single-centre or multicentre.

Field limited to 200 characters.
Countries of recruitment: Please list all of the countries where recruitment for the trial is taking place.

No field limit.
Participants - inclusion criteria: Please list the principal inclusion criteria for participants. The participants in the trial can be patients, healthy volunteers, doctors, health professionals, etc. This section should also include age and gender of participants.

No field limit.
Participants - exclusion criteria: Please list the principal exclusion criteria for participants. The participants in the trial can be patients, healthy volunteers, doctors, health professionals, etc.

No field limit.
Patient information material: If you have a web-based or pdf format patient information sheet for circulation to members of the public and prospective participants, please place a link to this information here. Please note that we can only accept URLs as space is limited.

Field limited to 500 characters.
Target number of participants: The target total recruitment of participants for the trial (across all arms and all sites if a multicentre trial).

Field limited to 200 characters.
Anticipated start date
(dd/mm/yyyy):
Please give the anticipated start date for the trial in the format dd/mm/yyyy. We would usually expect the start date to be the start of participant recruitment.

Date format.
Anticipated end date
(dd/mm/yyyy):
Please give the anticipated end date for the trial in the format dd/mm/yyyy. We would expect the end date to be either the end of participant recruitment, or the end of the trial follow-up period.

Date format.
Disease/condition/study domain: A short description of the disease, condition or healthcare domain being studied. Please note there is a character limit on this field; please keep information concise.

Field limited to 1000 characters.
Interventions: For an interventional trial:
Enter the specific names of the interventions and the comparator/controls being studied. If the intervention consists of several separate treatments, please list them all. If an active control is used, be sure to enter in the name of this control, or enter "placebo" or "no treatment" as applicable. For each intervention, describe other intervention details as applicable (dose, duration, frequency, mode of administration, etc).

For an observational trial:
Please provide a brief summary of your methodology, providing details of the tests that will be run, or any other pertinent information.

No field limit.
Primary outcome measure(s): Enter the names of all primary outcomes in the trial as well as the pre-specified timepoint(s) of primary interest. Be as specific as possible with the measure used (e.g., Pain, measured using the Visual Analogue Scale [VAS] score (0 to 10, 0 = no pain, 10 = unbearable pain), as opposed to just "pain").

No field limit.
Secondary outcome measure(s): Enter the names of all secondary outcomes in the trial as well as the pre-specified timepoint(s) of secondary interest. Be as specific as possible with the measure used (e.g., Pain, measured using the Visual Analogue Scale [VAS] [score 0 to 10, 0 = no pain, 10 = unbearable pain], as opposed to just "pain").

No field limit.
Trial website: If available, please give the URL of the trial website in the format http://www.trialwebsite.com.

Field limited to 128 characters.
Publications: If applicable, please list all publications directly reporting on the protocol or results of the trial. If possible, please give the citation of the publication and the URL in the format http://www.publication.com (e.g. in PubMed or the online version of the journal).

No field limit.
Sources of funding (plus reference numbers): Please list all known funding sources and any reference numbers given to the trial by each funding agency. If the trial is internally funded by the organisation where the lead principal investigator carries out the research, please give the name of this organisation.

No field limit.
Sponsor privacy level: Sponsors may request that the telephone, fax and email are not displayed in the public trial record.
Contact privacy level: Trial contacts may request that the telephone, fax and email are not displayed in the public trial record.
Where did you learn about the ISRCTN scheme?: Please specify the name of the organisation or medical journal that requires or recommends trial registration. If this registration is in conjunction with a submission to one of our sister company BioMed Central's journals, please enter 'Article submission to BMC' followed by the name of the BMC journal you are submitting to.

Field limited to 1000 characters.
Last updated in December 2007