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Verifies trial registration, IRB/ethics approval, informed consent, ICMJE authorship, disclosures, and data-sharing statements for JAMA manuscripts.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/jama-skills:jama-ethics-registrationThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- A clinical trial's registration status or timing is uncertain
At the Journal of the American Medical Association, an ICMJE member journal, several integrity items are hard gates: a manuscript that fails them is stopped regardless of merit. Treat each as pass/fail — registration before first enrollment (ID in abstract and Methods); a named IRB / ethics committee and the Declaration of Helsinki; consent described or its waiver IRB-justified; the four ICMJE authorship criteria with per-author COI disclosure; and the funder's role plus a concrete ICMJE-style data-sharing plan.
Vignette (illustrative): a multicenter randomized clinical trial, N = 2,600 adults with resistant hypertension, primary outcome 24-week change in ambulatory systolic blood pressure, mean difference -6.4 mm Hg (95% CI, -8.9 to -3.9). First participant enrolled March 3; registered April 18 — retrospective by ICMJE definition, ~6 weeks late.
Consequence and fix: generally not remediable; disclose the timing transparently, do not backdate. The effect estimate does not cure a registration-timing defect.
Calibration anchors (hedge where uncertain): prospective-before-enrollment registration, the four ICMJE authorship criteria, the Declaration of Helsinki, and per-author COI forms are durable; the accepted-registry list and data-sharing wording evolve — confirm against current author guidelines.
【Trial registration】prospective + ID: ... / retrospective (disclose) / n.a.
【Protocol registration (review)】PROSPERO ID / n.a.
【IRB + Helsinki + consent stated】yes / fixes: ...
【ICMJE authorship + contributorship】complete / issues: ...
【COI + funding + funder role disclosed】yes / gaps: ...
【Data-sharing statement】drafted / missing
【Next skill】jama-writing-style
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