Linked Clinical Trials is a CrossRef initiative helping to connect the published literature to registered clinical trials associated with the research, - version 1.0 (initial release) September 24, 2015
Accommodates deposit of linked clincal trials metadata. The clinical-trial-number value willbe a string that must match a specific pattern appropriate for a given clinical trial registry. Theregistry is identified in the required attribute 'registry' and must be the DOI of a recognized registry(see http://dx.doi.org/10.18810/registries)
<xsd:element name="program"><xsd:annotation><xsd:documentation>Accommodates deposit of linked clincal trials metadata. The clinical-trial-number value will be a string that must match a specific pattern appropriate for a given clinical trial registry. The registry is identified in the required attribute 'registry' and must be the DOI of a recognized registry (see http://dx.doi.org/10.18810/registries)</xsd:documentation></xsd:annotation><xsd:complexType><xsd:sequence><xsd:element ref="clinical-trial-number" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/></xsd:sequence></xsd:complexType></xsd:element>
Used to identify the article publication date in relation to the issuance of the trial results
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<xsd:element name="clinical-trial-number"><xsd:complexType mixed="true"><xsd:attribute name="registry" use="required"><xsd:annotation><xsd:documentation>The clinical trial identifier related to the article.</xsd:documentation></xsd:annotation><xsd:simpleType><xsd:restriction base="xsd:string"><xsd:maxLength value="200"/><xsd:minLength value="12"/><xsd:pattern value="10.18810/[a-z-]+"/></xsd:restriction></xsd:simpleType></xsd:attribute><xsd:attribute name="type" use="optional"><xsd:annotation><xsd:documentation>Used to identify the article publication date in relation to the issuance of the trial results</xsd:documentation></xsd:annotation><xsd:simpleType><xsd:restriction base="xsd:string"><xsd:enumeration value="preResults"/><xsd:enumeration value="results"/><xsd:enumeration value="postResults"/></xsd:restriction></xsd:simpleType></xsd:attribute></xsd:complexType></xsd:element>