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

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

Elizabeth Gargon  1 , Paula R Williamson  2 , Doug G Altman  3 , Jane M Blazeby  4 , Mike Clarke  5
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The COMET initiative database: progress and activities update (2014)

Elizabeth Gargon et al. Trials. .

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.

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Cumulative number of completed searches in the COMET database (2011-2014)
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