Meeting The EU CTR Compliance Challenge Head-On

By Thomas Wicks, chief strategy officer, TrialScope

Many clinical trial sponsors are so focused on initial submission and updates of their studies on government registries in an accurate and timely manner that, once a study is completed, they often neglect to post the final results. This is particularly problematic with European registries, which are complicated, confusing, and inconsistent in format.

The numbers don’t lie. Looking at public data on EU CTR as of July 16, a TrialScope analysis found a total of the over 16,000 studies that ended more than 12 months earlier, only around 10,000 had results posted.