A large number of clinical trials are conducted every year however researchers get limited excess of these data.
- What are clinical trials?
These are the study conducted on a large group of people to evaluate the efficacy of drugs in a particular disease or test a particular surgical procedure or even in behavior analysis. They are effective means by which scientists understand the pros and cons of any drug or treatment strategy.
United States Food and drug administration (FDA) initially gives the approval to begin the clinical trial. The texts are performed in the laboratory animals to get a preliminarily set of information pertaining to the study; subsequently, human trials are followed based on efficacy and safety.
Publishing Clinical trails
Conducting clinical trials is aimed to get the needed scientific intervention within a requisite time period to acquire sufficient scientific evidence which can shape our scientific understanding. Clinical trials are published in medical journals or are part of clinical trial registries.
However, as per reports around 50 % of trials remain unpublished post-completion.
- Clinical trials on kids and young subjects to evaluate a drug should not just remain as a piece of data in gov. It is due to the potential value of the information that cannot be accessed by the general public until it gets published. Also, the due repotting of clinical data in the context of kids can be lifesaving also.
- The publishing of Clinical trials should be a mandate, as the scientist by delaying or not publishing the data are predisposing the life of many innocent people especially if a drug is investigated for studies for its potentially dangerous side effects.
- Also, companies conduct clinical trials to hype up their products. If the company product is not performing well then most likely they keep hanging around.
- Clinical trials not getting published as the researchers don’t find the results very interesting to be part of a peer-reviewed journal. Results having novelty or not should be a part of a publication.