Transparency in research means that a study's existence, its plan and its results are visible — through prospective registration on registries such as ClinicalTrials.gov, through prespecified outcomes, and through reporting standards such as CONSORT. The purpose is narrow and important: to make it possible to notice when a trial's reported outcome is not the one it set out to measure, or when a study was never reported at all.
Our reporting treats registration as a checkable fact rather than a formality. Whether a finding was prespecified or found afterwards changes how much weight it can carry, and that is usually visible to anyone who looks.
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