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Thanks to all those who reviewed for Trials in 2014

Contributing reviewers

A peer-reviewed journal would not survive without the generous time and insightful comments of the reviewers, whose efforts often go unrecognized. Although final decisions are always editorial, they are greatly facilitated by the deeper technical knowledge, scientific insights, understanding of social consequences, and passion that reviewers bring to our deliberations. For these reasons, the Editors-in-Chief and staff of the journal warmly thank the 610 reviewers whose comments helped to shape Trials, for their invaluable assistance with review of manuscripts for the journal in Volume 15 (2014).

Purva Abhyankar

UK

Hatem Abu Hashim

Egypt

Clive E Adams

UK

Joy Adamson

UK

Christopher Adlbrecht

Austria

Luciano Agati

Italy

Rakesh Aggarwal

India

Mahboob Alam

USA

Eric Albrecht

Switzerland

Muktar Aliyu

USA

Kelli Allen

USA

Osvaldo Almeida

Australia

Constantine Amditis

Australia

Gavin Andrews

Bahamas

Djillali Annane

France

Massimo Antonelli

Italy

Ane Appelt

Denmark

Bruce Arroll

New Zealand

Deborah Ashby

UK

Lisa Askie

Australia

George Atkinson

USA

Peter Bacchetti

USA

Franz G. Bader

Germany

Gillian Baer

UK

Anne-Marie Bagnall

UK

Sean Bagshaw

Canada

Patricia Ballesta

Spain

Karla Ballman

USA

Barbara Bardoni

France

Neil Barnes

UK

Guido Bastiaens

Netherlands

Erika Baum

Germany

Shrujal Baxi

USA

David Beard

UK

Beatrice Beck-Schimmer

Switzerland

Vincenzo Berghella

USA

Julie Bernhardt

Australia

Pietro Bertini

Italy

Martin Bertrand

France

Mireia Besalú

Spain

Zhaoxiang Bian

Hong Kong

José Bilbao

Spain

Ariella Binik

UK

Yvonne Birks

UK

Jonathan Bisson

UK

Steven Blair

USA

Jane Blazeby

UK

Ashley Bonner

Canada

Jonathan Boote

UK

Ron Borland

Australia

Mark Borthwick

UK

Josée Bouchard

Canada

Peter Bower

UK

Mike Bradburn

UK

Patrick Brady

USA

Michael Brainin

Austria

Thijs Brandsma

Netherlands

Christopher Bray

UK

Daniel Bressington

Hong Kong

Laurent Brochard

Canada

Marianne Brodmann

Austria

Gert Bronfort

USA

Richard Brown

USA

Sarah Brown

UK

Sandra Bucci

UK

Stefan Budde

Germany

Lorraine Buis

USA

Bryan Burford

UK

Tom Burns

UK

Martin Burtscher

Austria

Phyllis Butow

Australia

Marc Buyse

Belgium

Agnès Caille

France

Michael Campbell

UK

Bridget Candy

UK

Daniel Carr

USA

Christopher Carroll

UK

Maija Castren

Finland

Cheejen Chang

Taiwan

Xiaorong Chang

China

Sue Channon

UK

Baoying Chen

China

Wei Chen

USA

Yiyi Chen

USA

Christopher Chen

Singapore

Dongquan Chen

USA

Ji Cheng

Canada

Wai Tong Chien

Hong Kong

Pietro Chiurazzi

Italy

Sun-Mi Choi

Korea, South

Babak Choodari-Oskooei

UK

Chun-Hung Chu

Hong Kong

Rong Chu

Canada

Roberto Cirocchi

Italy

David Clarke

UK

Jan Clarkson

UK

Elisabeth Coart

Belgium

Erik Cobo

Spain

Christopher Coffey

USA

Dena Cohen

UK

Judith Cohen

UK

Natasha Cohen

Canada

Ben Colagiuri

Australia

Tim Colbourn

UK

Dave Collett

UK

Deborah Joanne Cook

Canada

Cindy Cooper

UK

Simon Coulton

UK

Peter Alan Coventry

UK

Peter Craig

UK

Holger Cramer

Germany

Georgina Crichton

Australia

Christine Cronin

USA

William Crown

USA

Allan Cyna

Australia

Sara Czaja

USA

Dave Dagnan

USA

Rafael Dal-Ré

Spain

Sarah Damery

UK

Antoni Davalos

Spain

Colin Dayan

UK

Sabina De Geest

Switzerland

Harry J. De Koning

Netherlands

Jorge De La Torre

USA

Daniele De Luca

Italy

Christian De Mey

Germany

Jon Deeks

UK

Emilia D'elia

Italy

Ingrid Demmelmaier

Sweden

Catherine D'este

Australia

Niveditha Devasenapathy

India

Francesco Di Mola

Italy

Sean Dinneen

Ireland

Beate Ditzen

Germany

Dennis Dixon

USA

Mary Dixon-Woods

UK

Peter Dodek

Canada

Gordon Doig

Australia

Tara Donker

Australia

Allan Donner

Canada

Jenny L. Donovan

UK

Peter Doshi

USA

George Dowswell

UK

Rohan D'souza

Canada

Joel Dubin

Canada

Chantale Dumoulin

Canada

Graham Dunn

UK

David Daniel Ebert

Germany

Allison Ross Eckard

USA

Diana Elbourne

UK

C Kristian Enestvedt

USA

Steven Engebretson

USA

Tracy Epton

UK

Mert Erkan

Germany

Tom Fahey

Ireland

Muhammad Faisal

Pakistan

Anna Falanga

Italy

Morag Farquhar

UK

Paul Farrand

UK

Michael Fehlings

Canada

Dean Fergusson

Canada

Ricardo Fernandes

Portugal

Frederick Ferris

USA

Shona Fielding

UK

Graziella Filippini

Italy

Abe Fingerhut

France

Signe Flottorp

Norway

Maelán Fontes Villalba

Spain

Andrew Hugh Ford

Australia

Christen Fornadel

USA

Laura Forsythe

USA

Chris Foy

UK

Marlene Fransen

Australia

Tobias Freund

Germany

Lawrence Friedman

USA

Xavier Fritel

France

Ivana Furimsky

Canada

Carrol Gamble

UK

Simon Gates

UK

Johnson George

Australia

Jean-Pierre Gerard

France

Prithwijit Ghosh

USA

Mark Gillies

Australia

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Spain

Timothy Girard

USA

Lise Gluud

Denmark

Charlie Goldsmith

Canada

Manuel Gomes

UK

Primitivo Gómez Cardero

Spain

Mithat Gonen

USA

John Gonzalez

UK

Marjorie Good

USA

Adam Goode

USA

Jayashree Gopal

India

Jonathan Graffy

UK

Sean Grant

UK

Jocelyn Gravel

Canada

Walter Gregory

UK

Andrew Grey

New Zealand

Andrew Grieve

UK

James Griffin

UK

Xavier Griffin

UK

Ulla Griffiths

UK

Freedom Nkhululeko Gumedze

South Africa

Olivier Guyen

Switzerland

Ok Kyung Ham

Korea, South

James Hanley

Canada

Paul Harden

UK

Nicola Harman

UK

Sue Harnan

UK

Robert Hatala

Slovakia

Charles Heilig

USA

Asgeir R. Helgason

Sweden

Paul Hendrick

UK

Matthias Hermann

Switzerland

Sharlene Hesse-Biber

USA

Sarah Hetrick

Australia

Christo Heunis

South Africa

Michelle Heys

UK

Daniel Hind

UK

Christoph Hofer

Switzerland

Marie Hogan

USA

Maxi Holland

Germany

Nina Homayoon

Austria

Richard Hooper

UK

Val Hopwood

UK

Dell Horey

Australia

Kristina Dupont Hougaard

Denmark

Louise Michele Howard

UK

Michael Howley

USA

Jui-Chien Hsieh

Taiwan

Bo Hu

USA

Dominique Hubert

France

John Hummel

USA

Scott Hummel

USA

David Hunter

Australia

Myra Hunter

UK

John Hustad

USA

Peter Hutchinson

UK

Ana Iltis

USA

Joanne Ingwall

USA

George Ioannidis

Canada

Sameena Iqbal

Canada

Khalida Ismail

UK

Kristina Jackson

USA

Adam Jacobs

UK

George Jallo

USA

Lewis James

UK

Nicholas James

UK

Murali Janakiram

USA

Thomas Janssens

Belgium

Pawel Jastreboff

USA

Martin Jenkins

UK

Gail Jensen

USA

Kristin Jerger

USA

Honghua Jiang

USA

Antony Johansen

UK

Robert Johansson

Sweden

Kent Johnson

Australia

Ashley Jones

UK

David Jones

UK

Patricia Jones

USA

Sue Jordan

UK

Lawrence Joseph

Canada

Andrew Judge

UK

Steven Julious

UK

Michael Kaess

Germany

Juliana Kain

Chile

Norma Kanarek

USA

Steve Karas

USA

Sunil Kari

India

Manuella Kaster

Brazil

Thomas Kaulhausen

Germany

Walter Kernan

USA

Sally Kerry

UK

Line Kessel

Denmark

David Kessler

UK

Arndt Kiessling

Germany

Nanteza Gladys Kigozi

South Africa

Seung-Nam Kim

USA

Soo Wan Kim

Korea, South

Peter Kimani

UK

Jonathan Kimmelman

Canada

Ann Louise Kinmonth

UK

Kevin Kissling

USA

Heather Kitzman-Ulrich

USA

Lawrence Kleinman

USA

Roman Kloeckner

Germany

Sarah Knowles

UK

Kristen Knutson

USA

Seok-Jae Ko

Korea, South

Yun Hyung Koog

Korea, South

Riikka Korja

Finland

Belchin Kostov

Spain

Helena Kraemer

USA

Michael Krams

USA

Jayashri Kulkarni

Australia

Lindsay Kuroki

USA

Sunoh Kwon

USA

Jan Kyselovic

Slovakia

Christopher Labos

Canada

Jacques Lacroix

Canada

Trudie Lang

UK

Marilyne Lange

Netherlands

Helena Länsimies-Antikainen

Finland

Marissa Lassere

Australia

Dimitrios Lathyris

Greece

Eric Lau

Hong Kong

Romy Lauche

Germany

Alexandre Lautrette

France

Julia Lawton

UK

Gerald Lebovic

Canada

Myeong Soo Lee

Korea, South

Ellen Lee

UK

Seungmin Lee

Korea, South

Stanley Lemeshow

USA

Isabel Leroux-Roels

Belgium

Stefan Leucht

Germany

Daniel Levin

USA

Beth Lewis

USA

Ruth Lewis

UK

Joel Lexchin

Canada

Ai-Hsien Li

Canada

Ai-Hsien Li

Taiwan

Shaojung Li

Taiwan

Min Li

Hong Kong

Fan-Rong Liang

China

Lalita Limaye

India

Piotr Lipiec

Poland

Jianping Liu

China

Cun-Zhi Liu

China

Teresa Liu-Ambrose

Canada

Xiong Lize

China

Francesco Locatelli

Italy

S. Scott Lollis

USA

Carl Lombard

South Africa

J Longhurst

USA

Colleen Loo

Australia

Purificación Lopez

Spain

Travis Loux

USA

Aiping Lu

Hong Kong

Jon Lurie

USA

David Lussier

Canada

Jinhui Ma

Canada

Andrew Maas

Belgium

Lynette MacKenzie

Australia

Graeme MacLennan

UK

Hugh MacPherson

UK

Michael Tvilling Madsen

Denmark

Albane B.R. Maggio

Switzerland

Tanya Mailhot

Canada

Valerio Mais

Italy

Laxmaiah Manchikanti

USA

Jun Mao

USA

Maura Marcucci

Canada

Neil Marlow

UK

Tony Marson

UK

Arturo MartIacute-Carvajal

Venezuela

David Martin

Australia

Monica Martinez-Cengotitabengoa

Spain

Julia Mascherbauer

Austria

Karen Maschke

USA

Nancy Mayo

Canada

Lawrence Mbuagbaw

Cameroon

Amanda Mcintyre

Canada

Sharon Mckinley

Australia

Roberto Méndez-Sánchez

Spain

Hanna Merk

Sweden

Sally Merry

New Zealand

Luc Mertens

Canada

Luca Miceli

Italy

Christoph Michalski

Germany

Oliver Micke

Germany

Sandy Middleton

Australia

Jordan Miller

Canada

Vanessa Miller

USA

Jesse Mills

USA

Nicola Mills

UK

Erich Minar

Austria

Ben Mol

Afghanistan

Alan Montgomery

UK

Hayley Moore

UK

Eva Morris

UK

Tim Morris

UK

Joanna Morrison

Nepal

William Mortenson

Canada

Yoshiharu Motoo

Japan

Lawrence Moulton

USA

Brendan Mulhern

UK

Caroline Murphy

UK

Gordon Murray

UK

Jonah Musa

Nigeria

Shannon Myers Virtue

USA

Luigi Naldi

Italy

Melissa Napolitano

USA

Silvana Naredi

Sweden

Thais Nascimento

Canada

Efrat Neter

Israel

Marie-Louise Newell

UK

Tim Newton

UK

Paul Nietert

USA

Teemu Niiranen

Finland

Stavros Nikolakopoulos

Netherlands

Magnus Nilsson

Sweden

Curtis Noonan

USA

Tine Nordgreen

Norway

John Norrie

UK

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Sweden

Xavier Nuñez

Spain

Stacy O'blenes

Canada

Alicia O'cathain

UK

Eraldo Occhetta

Italy

Lang'o Odondi

UK

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USA

Michael Okun

USA

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Sweden

Stefano Omboni

Italy

Robert O'neill

USA

Anthony Ormerod

UK

Matthew Page

Australia

Christopher Parshuram

Canada

Nick Parsons

UK

Megan Passey

Australia

James Paul

Canada

Janet Peacock

UK

Nuria Perez-Alvarez

Spain

Leigh Perreault

USA

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UK

Paolo Persichetti

Italy

Christopher Phillips

USA

Sean Philpott-Jones

USA

Lira Pi

USA

Claude Pichonnaz

Switzerland

Davide Pietropaoli

Italy

Stefan Pilz

Austria

Carlos E. Pinfildi

Brazil

Paul Pinsky

USA

Daniel Pinto

Portugal

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Canada

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Canada

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Canada

Rudolf Poolman

Netherlands

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France

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Austria

John Powell

UK

Lindsay Prior

UK

Riccardo Proietti

Italy

Audrey Prost

UK

Eleanor Pullenayegum

Canada

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Canada

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Spain

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France

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UK

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USA

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USA

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Australia

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France

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UK

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UK

Matthieu Resche-Rigon

France

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Italy

Dan Riddle

USA

Rachel Riechelmann

Brazil

Robert Rintoul

UK

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Italy

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UK

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South Africa

Rhonda Rosychuk

USA

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Spain

Milind Ruke

India

Roman Rukwied

Germany

Clare Rutterford

UK

Everardo Saad

Brazil

Tsuneaki Sadanaga

Japan

Brodie Sakakibara

Canada

Jorge Salluh

Brazil

Zainab Samaan

Canada

John Sampalis

Canada

Peter Sandercock

UK

Carlos Santos-Gallego

USA

David Saunders

Thailand

Mary Sawtell

UK

Simonetta Scalvini

Italy

Dirk Schadler

Germany

Stephen Schaffer

USA

Bawarjan Schatlo

Germany

Roberta Scherer

USA

Ulrike Schmidt

UK

Simon Schneider

Germany

Rosa Schnyer

USA

David Schriger

USA

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Germany

Kenneth Schulz

USA

Julio José Secades Ruiz

Spain

Sukhdev Sembi

UK

Mehmet Sen

UK

Kok-Min Seow

Taiwan

Andreas Serra

Switzerland

Dean A. Sewell

UK

Fabrizio Sgolastra

Italy

Dr Shalimar

India

Hongcai Shang

China

Surya Kant Sharma

India

Anjail Sharrief

USA

Byung-Cheul Shin

Korea, South

Joseph Patrick Shott

USA

Ian Shrier

Canada

Muhammed Siddiqui

UK

Julius Sim

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Fiona Simpson

Australia

Sergio Siragusa

Italy

Lene Theil Skovgaard

Denmark

Susan Slaughter

Canada

Martin Smalbrugge

Netherlands

Alexey Smetkin

Russian Federation

Helen Snooks

UK

Claire Snowdon

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Priscilla Soares

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Mikael Sodergren

UK

Masoud Solaymani-Dodaran

Iran

Daniel Solomon

USA

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Norway

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UK

Sonia Souto

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India

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Italy

Amanda Staiano

USA

Nigel Stallard

UK

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UK

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Australia

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Poland

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Frank Sullivan

UK

Frank Sullivan

Canada

Qi Sun

China

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Nao Suzuki

Japan

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Norway

Matthew Robert Sydes

UK

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Japan

Monica Taljaard

Canada

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Canada

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UK

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Australia

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Alexandre Terrier

Switzerland

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Turkey

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Canada

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Canada

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Canada

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UK

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Netherlands

Shaun Treweek

UK

Janette Turner

UK

Sheila Turner

UK

Laura Twyman

Australia

Christi Ulmer

USA

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Thailand

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UK

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Belgium

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USA

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Argentina

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UK

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China

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Austria

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Australia

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Switzerland

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Netherlands

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New Zealand

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Hong Kong

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China

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Altman, D.G., Furberg, C.D. & Grimshaw, J.M. Thanks to all those who reviewed for Trials in 2014. Trials 16, 55 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0571-y

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