Phar­ma com­pa­nies out­per­form in­sti­tu­tions in Eu­ro­pean clin­i­cal tri­al re­port­ing amid prob­lem­at­ic over­all trends — Ox­ford study

Half of all tri­als sup­posed to be re­port­ed in a Eu­ro­pean data­base are not, de­spite clear le­gal re­quire­ments, re­searchers have found in the first such study of com­pli­ance, which al­so notes that phar­ma com­pa­nies do bet­ter in this re­gard than aca­d­e­m­ic in­sti­tu­tions, char­i­ties and hos­pi­tals.

Comb­ing through 7274 tri­als on the EU Clin­i­cal Tri­als Reg­is­ter (EU­C­TR) that have passed the due date for post­ing da­ta, a team out of Ox­ford’s Ev­i­dence-Based Med­i­cine Data­L­ab not­ed that on­ly 49.5% re­port­ed their re­sults — mean­ing half of the time, tri­als spon­sors have breached a 2012 Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion guide­line that man­dates dis­clo­sure with­in 12 months of study com­ple­tion.

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