How Can I Find Clinical Trial Results?

Learning about the Results of Clinical Trials
Study volunteers can spend weeks, months, or even years making regular visits to a research site, keeping a log of their symptoms and treatment reactions, and getting checked and examined.

When the clinical trial is over, many study volunteers wonder:

What was learned from my participation? Did my participation lead to knowledge that will help others dealing with an illness or medical condition?

With the help of study volunteers, researchers answer important medical questions that could benefit public health. However it is not always easy to know how to find the results. Also sometimes the trial results are written in technical language that is hard to understand.  CISCRP wants to make it easier for you to find out what researchers learned from clinical trials.

 

Where can I find clinical trial results?

CISCRP creates easy to understand summaries of the results for certain clinical trials.

The study sponsors have reviewed the summaries for scientific accuracy. Read the trial result summaries that CISCRP created.

 

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Other Sources to Find Clinical Trial Results

• The U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) requires that many clinical trial results are posted on the website www.clinicaltrials.gov.
  
  
• CenterWatch. The New Medical Therapies™ database offers a concise overview of investigational therapies for a specific disease or condition. To search the NMT™ results, select a therapeutic area.
  
  
• For studies involving a cancer treatment, visit the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Clinical Trials Results. It contains summaries of recently released results from cancer clinical trials.
  
  
• Some trial results reports are available at www.clinicalstudyresults.org/.
  
  
• Some study sponsors now have a database on their website that contains the technical clinical trial results for their studies. 

Keep in mind that most clinical trials take a long time to complete – sometimes years. This is because a trial often has many study sites. So even if your participation in the clinical trial has ended, the study may still be ongoing.  After a study ends, researchers must compile results and write a report. The clinical trial results are typically ready one year after the end of the trial.