Da­ta sug­gest US, UK uni­ver­si­ties fall woe­ful­ly short on re­port­ing clin­i­cal tri­al re­sults

Clin­i­cal tri­al da­ta are used by pa­tients, doc­tors and pol­i­cy­mak­ers to make in­formed choic­es about the ben­e­fits and safe­ty of in­ter­ven­tions — while the meth­ods and re­sults of all tri­als are cru­cial to the pace and di­rec­tion of sci­en­tif­ic progress. How­ev­er, there is a large body of ev­i­dence that sug­gests that com­plet­ed clin­i­cal tri­als are com­mon­ly left un­re­port­ed, and ed­u­ca­tion­al in­sti­tu­tions in the Unit­ed States and the Unit­ed King­dom — ar­guably the two biggest re­gions that breed the bulk of med­ical in­no­va­tion — have emerged as one of the key cul­prits guilty of these vi­o­la­tions.

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