Only about 29 percent of completed medical trials conducted at major American academic centers lead to published or reported results within two years, according to one of the most detailed analyses of the problem. The findings, published on Wednesday in BMJ, suggest that universities and their funders still are falling well short on a major yardstick of open science and of responsibility to participating patients. "The academic institutions are doing very little about this — nothing, in fact," said a lead author, Harlan M. Krumholz, a professor of medicine at Yale University.

February 18, 2016 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education