The COMET initiative database: progress and activities update (2014)

Trials. 2015 Nov 11:16:515. doi: 10.1186/s13063-015-1038-x.

Abstract

The COMET Initiative database is a repository of studies relevant to the development of core outcome sets (COS). Use of the website continues to increase, with more than 16,500 visits in 2014 (36 % increase over 2013), 12,257 unique visitors (47 % increase), 9780 new visitors (43 % increase) and a rise in the proportion of visits from outside the UK (8565 visits; 51 % of all visits). By December 2014, a total of 6588 searches had been completed, with 2383 in 2014 alone (11 % increase). The growing awareness of the need for COS is reflected in the website and database usage figures.

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Access to Information
  • Clinical Trials as Topic* / statistics & numerical data
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Databases, Factual* / statistics & numerical data
  • Databases, Factual* / trends
  • Forecasting
  • Humans
  • Information Dissemination
  • International Cooperation
  • Internet