Nearly half of pediatric clinical trials initiated over a more than 12-year period did not report or publish their results, according to a study published in Pediatrics.
Researchers conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 13,259 clinical trials that enrolled participants aged 18 years or younger from October 2007 to March 2020.
“The landscape of pediatric clinical trials, including drivers of completion and timely dissemination of results, is not well understood,” they wrote. “We aimed to characterize the prevalence of and factors associated with early discontinuation, results