The RIAT Support Center facilitates the correction of the scientific record.

RIAT Support

We offer free-of-charge support to researchers anywhere in the world looking to publish an unpublished trial or correct or republish a misreported trial. Our website offers practical how-to advice on obtaining clinical study reports, establishing a written record of non-publication of misreporting, and approaching journals. When our website doesn’t answer your questions, ask us.

Covid-19

Check out the RIAT Support Center’s new Covid-19 page where links to various study documents for Covid-19 vaccine trials are compiled.
Covid-19

Expressions of Concern

Participate in the RIAT Support Center’s new Expressions of Concern campaign! The campaign involves a large number of researchers worldwide writing Expressions of Concern to editors of journals that published misreported trials, demonstrating that serious issues like trial misreporting and inappropriate methods are widespread problems of concern and that the record needs to be corrected. Watch a video about the Campaign here!

Expressions of Concern

RIAT Competitions

From 2018 to 2020, we offered competitive funding to researchers who planned to RIAT.  Winners of our 2018 competition were funded to restore the TADS trial, winners of our 2019 competition were funded to restore previously unreported harms of gabapentin for neuropathic pain and to reanalyze the famous Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) Study, and winners of our 2020 competition were funded to restore the FOURIER trial (evolocumab vs placebo in secondary cardiovascular prevention), and to restore two pivotal trials of fluoxetine in children with depression.

This crisis of hidden or misreported information from clinical trials—and the resulting distortion of the clinical evidence base—is widely recognized and commonly decried. It is one of the leading scientific problems of our time, but few solutions have been put forward. … Doshi and colleagues offer a bold remedy in the form of the RIAT (restoring invisible and abandoned trials) proposal.

Editors of The BMJ and PLOS Medicine, source

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CSRs, CRFs, EPARs, and AusPARs - say what?

RIAT Glossary

The world of clinical trial data is large. Our glossary is here to help you decipher the lingo

Oops

Know of an unpublished or misreported trial?

Report a trial

Tell us about it. We will collate the responses and publish a summary on the website

How it started

2013

The RIAT Declaration

RIAT was launched with a commentary in 2013 and endorsed by The BMJ and PLOS Medicine – and more since

Latest blog posts

See our latest posts about the RIAT Expressions of Concern Campaign and the Pfizer vaccine’s trial information.

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