Completion and Publication Rates of Randomized Controlled Trials in Surgery: An Empirical Study

Rachel Rosenthal¹, Benjamin Kasenda, Salome Dell-Kuster+37

• ¹*Department of Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse, Basel, Switzerland †Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Hospital of Basel, Hebelstrasse, Basel, Switzerland ‡Department of Oncology, Basel University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland §Cochrane Switzerland, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland ¶Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ‖Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada **German Cochrane Centre, Department of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany ††Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland ‡‡Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland §§Department of Urology, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland ¶¶Department of Internal Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile ‖‖Evidence-Based Dentistry Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile ***Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada †††Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Diseases Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ‡‡‡Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Riad-El-Solh, Beirut, Lebanon §§§Department of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY ¶¶¶Center for Pediatric Clinical Studies, Department of Neonatology, University Children's Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany and Division of Neonatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland ‖‖‖Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ****Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ††††Epidemiolo