Just good sense

摘要

AUTrials advocates for clinical trial results to be reported on clinical trial registers first,and only then in journal papers.Uploading results onto a clinical trial register comes with a lot of advantages.It means the results are always publicly accessible(not behind a pay wall).It means results are more complete and honest than they might be in a journal paper because the researcher is forced to report against a standard template,whereas it's easy to leave out”uninteresting”results in a paper(i.e.to just report on secondary outcomes,if the primary outcome showed no effect).In a number of places around the world including the US and the EU it is the law that results are reported onto the national register.Clinical trial registers arc publicly accessible databases of information about clinical trials.The largest ones are,generally,run by governments-for example,the US's governments ClinicalTrials.gov(run by the FDA) and the EU s EU Clinical Trial Register(run by the EMA).In the EU the rule is that all clinical trials on the EU register(and that is all EU clinical trials) must report results onto the register within 12 months of the end of the trial.We have built the trial tracker tools-websites where we pull in information from clinical trial registers,assess which trials have results associated with them or not and therefore which institutes and companies are reporting and who is noL Based on our EU clinical trial tracker,around 40% of them have not.