Muthiah Vaduganathan1, Amulya Nagarur2, Arman Qamar3, Ravi B Patel4, Ann Marie Navar5, Eric D Peterson5, Deepak L Bhatt3, Gregg C Fonarow6, Clyde W Yancy4, Javed Butler7. 1. Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart & Vascular Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (M.V., A.Q., D.L.B.). mvaduganathan@bwh.harvard.edu. 2. Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (A.N.). 3. Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart & Vascular Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (M.V., A.Q., D.L.B.). 4. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (R.B.P., C.W.Y.). 5. Duke Clinical Research Institute and Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (A.M.N., E.D.P.). 6. Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, University of California Los Angeles (G.C.F.). 7. Division of Cardiology, Stony Brook University, NY (J.B.).
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Sharing of patient-level clinical trial data has been widely endorsed. Little is known about how extensively these data have been used for cardiometabolic diseases. We sought to evaluate the availability and use of shared data from cardiometabolic clinical trials. METHODS: We extracted data from ClinicalStudyDataRequest.com, a large, multisponsor data-sharing platform hosting individual patient-level data from completed studies sponsored by 13 pharmaceutical companies. RESULTS: From January 2013 to May 2017, the platform had data from 3374 clinical trials, of which 537 (16%) evaluated cardiometabolic therapeutics (phase 1, 36%; phase 2, 17%; phase 2/3, 1%; phase 3, 42%; phase 4, 4%). They covered 74 therapies and 398 925 patients. Diabetes mellitus (60%) and hypertension (15%) were the most common study topics. Median time from study completion to data availability was 79 months. As of May 2017, ClinicalStudyDataRequest.com had received 318 submitted proposals, of which 163 had signed data-sharing agreements. Thirty of these proposals were related to cardiometabolic therapies and requested data from 79 unique studies (15% of all trials, 29% of phase 3/4 trials). Most (96%) data requesters of cardiometabolic clinical trial data were from academic centers in North America and Western Europe, and half the proposals were unfunded. Most proposals were for secondary hypothesis-generating questions, with only 1 proposed reanalysis of the original study primary hypothesis. To date, 3 peer-reviewed articles have been published after a median of 19 months (9-32 months) from the data-sharing agreement. CONCLUSIONS: Despite availability of data from >500 cardiometabolic trials in a multisponsor data-sharing platform, only 15% of these trials and 29% of phase 3/4 trials have been accessed by investigators thus far, and a negligible minority of analyses have reached publication.
BACKGROUND: Sharing of patient-level clinical trial data has been widely endorsed. Little is known about how extensively these data have been used for cardiometabolic diseases. We sought to evaluate the availability and use of shared data from cardiometabolic clinical trials. METHODS: We extracted data from ClinicalStudyDataRequest.com, a large, multisponsor data-sharing platform hosting individual patient-level data from completed studies sponsored by 13 pharmaceutical companies. RESULTS: From January 2013 to May 2017, the platform had data from 3374 clinical trials, of which 537 (16%) evaluated cardiometabolic therapeutics (phase 1, 36%; phase 2, 17%; phase 2/3, 1%; phase 3, 42%; phase 4, 4%). They covered 74 therapies and 398 925 patients. Diabetes mellitus (60%) and hypertension (15%) were the most common study topics. Median time from study completion to data availability was 79 months. As of May 2017, ClinicalStudyDataRequest.com had received 318 submitted proposals, of which 163 had signed data-sharing agreements. Thirty of these proposals were related to cardiometabolic therapies and requested data from 79 unique studies (15% of all trials, 29% of phase 3/4 trials). Most (96%) data requesters of cardiometabolic clinical trial data were from academic centers in North America and Western Europe, and half the proposals were unfunded. Most proposals were for secondary hypothesis-generating questions, with only 1 proposed reanalysis of the original study primary hypothesis. To date, 3 peer-reviewed articles have been published after a median of 19 months (9-32 months) from the data-sharing agreement. CONCLUSIONS: Despite availability of data from >500 cardiometabolic trials in a multisponsor data-sharing platform, only 15% of these trials and 29% of phase 3/4 trials have been accessed by investigators thus far, and a negligible minority of analyses have reached publication.
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