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Posting of Basic Results of Clinical Trials

NCT01658254 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 379

Last updated 2014-09-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The gap between the high number of registered trials and the few ones where results were available (in registries or in journals) has been identified as a major problem distorting the scientific evidence available. As a consequence, the FDAAA (Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act) added on September 27, 2007 a requirements policy regarding publication of summary results on the publicly accessible registry ClinicalTrials.gov. Reporting of summary results is required for "applicable clinical trials" no later than one year after the "primary completion date", i.e. the date of collection of primary outcome data on the last patient to be enrolled. 'Applicable clinical trials', is the term used in the FDAAA to designate trials that may be subject to the registration and reporting requirements.

Not complying with the reporting requirements can result in penalties, such as withholding of National Institute of Health grant or funding and civil monetary penalties of up to $10,000 a day. Despite the possibility of incurring penalties for not complying with the posting requirement, compliance remains globally poor.

In this current study, the primary objective will be to test the hypothesis that sending an email looking as a survey, reminding the necessity of posting results to the trials' responsible parties registered in ClinicalTrials.gov and subject to mandatory reporting but not complying with it, will increase the results posting rate.

Conditions

  • The Study Will Focus on no Specific Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

survey by email

The intervention consists in an email to be sent to the sponsor and/or principal investigator of randomly assigned trials. This email will notify them that their trial's primary completion date is over a year old and will ask the reasons why they have not posted results on the registry. Several reasons will be proposed, and investigators or sponsors will be asked to reply by sending back an email or through a website where the same questions will appear. A follow-up email will systematically be sent 7 days after, with similar content (appendix2). The emails will be sent as direct emails, without attached files, with the edit subject "Posting basic results". The controlled group will receive no intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Philippe Ravaud, MD, PhD · Hotel-Dieu, Clinical Epidemiology Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-09-30
Primary Completion
2013-05-31
Completion
2013-05-31

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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