Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Qld, Australia.
Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2011 Oct;55(9):1037-43. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2011.02477.x. Epub 2011 Jun 20.
The practical and ethical issues in determining authorship in multicenter trials raise significant and unique challenges. This systematic review examines methods of assigning authorship in multicenter clinical trials. A literature search (October 2009) was conducted to identify articles with the terms 'authorship' and 'clinical trial,' 'multicenter' or 'multicentre.' Abstracts were reviewed for potential relevance and the complete manuscript was obtained where indicated. Additional articles were identified by a review of the reference list from sourced articles. Methods for determining authorship were reviewed in terms of practicality, fairness and the time course for decision-making. Eight methods for determining authorship were identified: four used a scoring system, two articles contained guidelines with reference to scoring systems and two articles outlined general guidelines. All methods attempted to provide a fair and practical approach and appeared to achieve this to varying degrees. No one method was applicable across all multicenter trials. The authors propose a guide for determining authorship based on the methods identified and the number of collaborators and anticipated publications. For smaller collaborative groups (e.g. <10 persons), byline inclusion of all authors based on relative contributions is recommended. For larger collaborations (e.g. ≥ 10 persons), authorship guidelines should be explicit from the outset of the trial with consideration of relevant scoring systems.
多中心试验中确定作者身份的实际和伦理问题提出了重大而独特的挑战。本系统评价研究了多中心临床试验中作者身份的分配方法。进行了文献检索（2009 年 10 月），以确定包含“作者”和“临床试验”、“多中心”或“多中心”术语的文章。对摘要进行了潜在相关性的审查，并在有指示的情况下获得了完整的手稿。通过对来源文章的参考文献进行审查，确定了其他文章。根据决策的实用性、公平性和时间进程，审查了确定作者身份的方法。确定作者身份的方法有八种：其中四种使用评分系统，两篇文章包含参考评分系统的指南，两篇文章概述了一般指南。所有方法都试图提供公平和实用的方法，并在不同程度上似乎达到了这一目标。没有一种方法适用于所有多中心试验。作者根据确定的方法和合作者的数量以及预期的出版物，提出了一份确定作者身份的指南。对于较小的合作小组（例如<10 人），建议根据相对贡献将所有作者列入署名。对于较大的合作（例如≥10 人），应从试验开始就明确作者身份准则，并考虑相关评分系统。
