JOURNALISTS: We have a very exciting paper on FAILURE TO REPORT CLINICAL TRIAL RESULTS CORRECTLY coming tomorrow FRIDAY, embargoed to 23:30 UK time. If you would like the press release please email [email protected] and cc me [email protected]

BING BONG NEW PAPER Nick DeVito @[email protected] and me in the LANCET today. We definitively assess compliance with US law FDAAA 2007, which requires clinical trials to report results within 12 months of completion. The answer: 59% of trials breached the law thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Our paper!

In the Doug Altman Lecture at #REWARD2020 @BOUTRON1 talks a about our TrialsTracker work.

Just won (mostly) a court case against @us_fda: agency can no longer exempt certain trial results from reporting on clinicaltrials.gov contrary to law (FDAAA). Thx to co-plaintiff Peter G. Lurie, MD & litigators MFIA Clinic NYU Law @Yale_CRIT. documentcloud.org/documents/6784…

Pleased to share something I've been working on for the past couple weeks. The newest addition to our TrialsTracker.net project: covid19.trialstracker.net

The U.S. FDA are under fire for (again) failing to monitor and enforce on non-compliance with trial reporting rules. Our FDAAA TrialsTracker (in the piece) does the monitoring job fine, and didn't cost much to build: they could use that, or build their own. statnews.com/pharmalot/2020…

I'll shout more about this when it isn't Friday evening but my preprint on COVID trial reporting with Peter and Maia Salholz-Hillel Daniel Strech from @questbih is up! Check it out for a weekend read!

My group in Oxford has published LOTS on who does, and doesn't, report their clinical trial results. But what about the rest: late registrations, data verification, certificates of delay, document sharing? Our Nick DeVito lashes detail in JAMA Internal Medicine jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Consistent with our findings from the FDAAA TrialsTracker on sponsor size being a major predictor of FDAAA compliance Here: thelancet.com/journals/lance… And here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai… And consistent with the EU as well here: bmj.com/content/362/bm…

ICYMI, I had two pieces on pre-registration come out last week with a bunch of wonderful co-authors. Primer on Registration in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine: ebm.bmj.com/content/early/… Editorial on UK Registration in The BMJ: bmj.com/content/376/bm…

In news probably only a handful of people care about, but drove me crazy, ClinicalTrials.gov is finally closing a loophole that let people submit delays of results for good cause much later than should be allowed under FDAAA Reshma Ramachandran TranspariMED Deborah Zarin

Wrote up some quick thoughts about using the new EU CTIS registry: bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2022/10/f…

Come and work with us. This is an unprecedentedly awesome job. Three years with the team that builds OpenSAFELY FDAAA TrialsTracker OpenPrescribing AND Oxford college affiliation, with all the dinners and discursive chats across disciplines that entails!

WE ARE HIRING Junior Research Fellow with college affiliation. That means meals and rich social/intellectual community on top of 3 years with the mighty team that builds OpenSAFELY FDAAA TrialsTracker OpenPrescribing Come change the world through data and tools!

WE ARE HIRING! A prestigious fellowship at Jesus College Oxford working with us on your own projects around epidemiology, open science, research software engineering and all our usual obsessions! Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science OpenSAFELY OpenPrescribing FDAAA TrialsTracker and more bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/02/w…

Just a note, the fdaaa.trialstracker.net had not been updated in some time as we needed to make some updates to our software to account for the new ClinicalTrials.gov website. Those have now been made at the data is once again current!

WHO highlighting best practice for transparency of trials aligned with revised Dec of Helsinki. Trialists should: -Prospectively register -Report within 12 months of completion -Share results with participants -Plan to responsibly share trial data linkedin.com/posts/vasee-mo…

You may have noticed we haven't updated the TrialsTracker in a while due to some technical issues. Well good news! Those have been fixed now and you can expect regular updates to resume moving forward! fdaaa.trialstracker.net

We are launching a project on improving code sharing in health and medical research funded by UK Research and Innovation. Read more here: bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/08/h…