About
The Clinical Trials Registration and Results Reporting Taskforce is a national consortium of members of academic medical centers, universities, hospitals, and non-profit organizations focused on the implementation of domestic clinical trials registration and results reporting requirements in the ClinicalTrials.gov public repository.
The Taskforce membership is comprised of volunteers; there is no funding or formal support structure behind the group’s efforts. There is no regulatory mandate to join the Taskforce; however, only members are able to access all of the resources developed by the group. Some resources, at the discretion of the group, are made publicly available through this website.
Mission:
This group will focus on the requirements for clinical trials registration and results reporting that affect US academic health centers. The group’s objectives include:
- Understanding and applying the requirements;
- Identifying best practices in managing the requirements;
- Developing tools to assist both regulatory support and investigators in meeting the requirements; and
- Serving as a communication forum to support academia in meeting clinical trials registration/reporting requirements.
Subcommittees:
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| Co-Lead: Meredith Rhodes University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Co-Lead: Scott Patton Stanford University |
The Best Practice Subcommittee develops guidance documents as a resource for Taskforce members.
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| Co-Lead: Brandy Slusser University of Michigan |
Co-Lead: Susan Hmwe City of Hope National Medical Center |
The Cancer-Focused Subcommittee is a group of ClinicalTrials.gov and CTRP administrations who meet monthly to discuss common trends in cancer research. If you are interested in joining, please reach out via our Contact Us Form.
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| Co-Lead: Cristina Ferrazzano Yaussy Dartmouth Health |
Co-Lead: Lauren Odynocki Weill Cornell Medicine |
The ClinicalTrials.gov Taskforce Education Subcommittee provides educational materials and discussion forums to facilitate open collaboration between and enhance the knowledge and competencies of ClinicalTrials.gov PRS Administrators at Taskforce member institutions.
Lead: Jesse Reynolds
Yale University
The Survey Subgroup conducted an online survey of PRS administrators to identify policies, procedures, and resources to support clinical trial registration and results reporting at academic organizations in the US. The group met beginning in 2016 to design survey questions, develop a study protocol, lunch the survey, and write a manuscript describing the results. The 2017 survey provides a baseline for follow-up surveys and analyses of trends, and the Survey Subgroup is currently developing a second survey to be conducted in 2018. If you have questions, or to learn more, please reach out via our Contact Us Form.
The Subgroup would like to thank personnel at NIH for their assistance in developing and conducting the survey. We would also like to thank the Taskforce members for the robust response rate and specifically the 13 members of the Taskforce who volunteered to pilot the survey.
A new survey was sent in 2023 with a manuscript being finalized for submission in Spring 2025.