madinamerica
Peter Simons
Oct 2/18
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https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/10/less-half-clinical-trials-comply-legislation-accurately-report-results/A new study finds that sponsors of clinical trials in the EU continue to fail at reporting their results as required by recent legislation.A new study, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), has found that research sponsors continue to fail at reporting their results as required by recent legislation. More than half of new clinical trials in the European Union failed to comply with this legislation.
The authors, led by Ben Goldacre at the University of Oxford, write that “Compliance with the European Commission requirement for all trials to post results on to the EUCTR within 12 months of completion has been poor, with half of all trials non-compliant.â€
One of the problems in clinical trial research is that negative results often go unpublished. That is, researchers have a difficult time publishing studies in which they do not find the hoped-for results. Research journals are less likely to publish studies in which researchers find that their hypotheses were unsupported, and industry pressure may bury trials in which particular medications do not show efficacy.
