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Comparison of serious adverse events posted at ClinicalTrials.gov and published in corresponding journal articles

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, August 2015
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Title
Comparison of serious adverse events posted at ClinicalTrials.gov and published in corresponding journal articles
Published in
BMC Medicine, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12916-015-0430-4
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Authors

Eve Tang, Philippe Ravaud, Carolina Riveros, Elodie Perrodeau, Agnes Dechartres

Abstract

The reporting of serious adverse events (SAEs) in clinical trials is crucial to assess the balance between benefits and risks. For trials with serious adverse events posted at ClinicalTrials.gov, we assessed the consistency between SAEs posted at ClinicalTrials.gov and those published in corresponding journal articles. All records from ClinicalTrials.gov up to February 2014 were automatically exported in XML format. Among these, we identified all phase III or IV randomized controlled trials with at least one SAE posted. For a random sample of 300 of these trials, we searched for corresponding publications using MEDLINE via PubMed and extracted safety results from the articles. Among the sample of 300 trials with SAEs posted at ClinicalTrials.gov, 78 (26 %) did not have a corresponding publication, and 20 (7 %) had a publication that did not match the ClinicalTrials.gov record. For the 202 remaining trials, 26 published articles (13 %) did not mention SAEs, 4 (2 %) reported no SAEs, and 33 (16 %) did not report the total number of SAEs per treatment group. Among the remaining 139 trials, for 44 (32 %), the number of SAEs per group published did not match those posted at ClinicalTrials.gov. For 31 trials, the number of SAEs was greater at ClinicalTrials.gov than in the published article, with a difference ≥30 % for at least one group for 21. Only 33 trials (11 %) had a publication reporting matching numbers of SAE and describing the type of SAE. Many trials with SAEs posted at ClinicalTrials.gov are not yet published, omit the reporting of these SAEs in corresponding publications, or report a discrepant number of SAEs as compared with ClinicalTrials.gov. These results underline the need to consult ClinicalTrials.gov for more information on serious harms.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Russia 1 1%
Unknown 74 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 12%
Other 7 9%
Researcher 6 8%
Student > Bachelor 6 8%
Other 19 25%
Unknown 15 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 35 47%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 4%
Social Sciences 2 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Other 8 11%
Unknown 20 27%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 98. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 September 2019.
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#432,180
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#330
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#5,069
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#10
of 87 outputs
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