TRIP

Increasing national and international interest in identifying, recording and promoting access to healthcare trials and their results has seen the development of large numbers of trials registers, and more recently, results registers. Trials registers provide information on current and recently completed research and results registers provide information on completed research. This type of information is useful for research commissioning, health technology assessments, systematic reviews and product development. Trials registers, results registers and other research registers are developing quickly and provide challenges in terms of identification, efficient searching and record management. This one day training course will highlight the background to the development of trial registers and trials results registers, will discuss the types of registers and their relative coverage, and will offer practical advice on searching registers and managing register records. The training course presenters will be Julie Glanville and Carol Lefebvre. Julie Glanville is Project Director - Information Services at York Health Economics Consortium. Carol Lefebvre is the Senior Information Specialist at the UK Cochrane Centre. Julie and Carol are co-authors of the searching chapter of the Cochrane Handbook and have many years' experience of identifying trials evidence. By the end of the training day, participants will have: * An awareness of why trials registers, results registers and other research registers are being produced and their value for a range of research activity; * An understanding of the key registers, their coverage and overlap; * An awareness of the searching and record management issues that they pose.