EU Trials Tracker — Who's not sharing clinical trial results?

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-11-07

Summary:

"Non-reporting of clinical trial results is an ongoing global public health problem.

The best currently available evidence shows that around half of all trials go unreported: this means that doctors and patients see only a partial, biased fraction of the true evidence. We cannot make informed decisions about treatments unless all the data is reported. Under EU rules, from December 2016, all trials on the European Union Clinical Trials Register (EUCTR) should post results within 12 months of completion. There has never been a rule as simple and clear as this, anywhere in the world. Our EU Trials Tracker shows which organisations are compliant, and which aren't. Our paper in the BMJ analysed the data as of January 2018, and found that only 49% of Europe's clinical trials reported results in the register...."

Link:

https://eu.trialstracker.net/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.data oa.pharma oa.compliance oa.europe oa.medicine oa.industry

Date tagged:

11/07/2018, 15:49

Date published:

11/07/2018, 10:49