A public transparency score for every trial sponsor, used by sites and patients
Rate sponsors on whether they publish their results, share data and register outcomes honestly. Hospitals and patients can then prefer sponsors that behave well.
TrialsTracker-style dashboards already compute results-posting rates per sponsor. A composite score (results posting, time to publication, data sharing, outcome-switching audit, protocol availability) published annually and offered to hospital research offices and patient groups as a factor in choosing which trials to host or join would attach a reputational and recruitment cost to opacity.
- Failures are hidden · Negative trials, failed drugs and abandoned programmes are rarely published, so the same mistakes are repeated.
- Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency · Most patients cannot understand their options, find trials, or push back, so decisions are made for them.
Pages like this
not linked directly; found by shared links- IdeaNo new trial approval until the sponsor has reported its old ones
Shares Actually fine sponsors who do not post trial results, ClinicalTrials.gov, Failures are hidden.
- IdeaPlain-language trial results returned to every participant within a year
Shares Failures are hidden, Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency.
- IdeaStop failing trials earlier with pre-registered aggressive futility rules
Shares ClinicalTrials.gov, Failures are hidden.
- IdeaAutomatically detect when a trial changes its outcomes after the fact
Shares ClinicalTrials.gov, Failures are hidden.
- IdeaAn annual map of high-burden questions that nobody is funding
Shares ClinicalTrials.gov, Failures are hidden.
- IdeaA plain-language summary of every cancer trial result within a year
Shares ClinicalTrials.gov, Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency.
- IdeaRequire every oncology candidate to publish how much reaches the brain
Shares ClinicalTrials.gov, Failures are hidden.
- IdeaA standing rulebook for one-patient treatments
Shares ClinicalTrials.gov, Failures are hidden.