You may want to shift start or completion dates for some goals so that your expectations for any 1 month are realistic.
For each trial, the start date, completion date and registration date in http://ClinicalTrials.gov were recorded.
The other studies were registered somewhere between the start and completion date (58%), or after the completion date (15%).
I just wanted to ask a favour – I was hoping we might be able to start scheduling our completion date for days prior to the real deadline, to give us time to work in changes and updates.
Grant funding start and completion dates for individual grants varied: a large proportion (20/50, 40%) of the studies in our sample did not start until 2007, the last year in our sample period; the grant funding for most (44/50, 88%) had ended by 2009; and the funding period for all of the studies had concluded by 2011.
Providing the date of registration and the start and completion dates for the trial would provide a better overview than just the registration number.
'Rolling groups' would not have fixed start or completion dates, so clients wishing to re-enter the service for help would be able to do so.
While nearly all (99%) of the trial summaries not currently registered on clinicaltrials.gov have trial start or completion dates prior to 2007, 75% of trial summaries that are registered on the website also have pre-2007 trial dates.
We checked whether the study had been registered before its initiation by comparing the registration date with the start and completion dates of participant enrolment as reported in the registry.
Men were asked to identify primary treatment(s) received from a list (radical prostatectomy, external beam radiotherapy, androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), brachytherapy, chemotherapy, active surveillance/watchful waiting) with start and completion dates, and hospital(s) attended.
Three-quarters of these currently registered trials have trial start or completion dates prior to 2007, thereby suggesting that actual registration practices on clinicaltrials.gov may be more inclusive than the minimum requirements set out by the FDAAA.
