Members of the College of Optometrists have been urged to sign the All Trials campaign petition, which is demanding the registration of all clinical trials and the publication of their results.
The campaign was launched in January last year by groups including the Cochrane Collaboration and the BMJ Group.
The College said it addressed the issue that many clinical trials had not published their results, causing clinical decisions both in drug procurement and prescribing to be based on inaccurate evidence.
‘This harms the ability of clinicians to provide effective and evidence based treatment for patients,’ a statement by the College added.
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