{"id":41271,"date":"2018-01-31T12:36:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T11:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=41271"},"modified":"2018-02-06T12:47:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T11:47:22","slug":"tianjing-li-whats-not-shared-building-on-the-transparency-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2018\/01\/31\/tianjing-li-whats-not-shared-building-on-the-transparency-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Tianjing Li: What\u2019s not shared\u2014building on the FDA&#8217;s transparency momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_80031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41276\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_80031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a>Recently, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/360\/bmj.k294\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/NewsEvents\/Speeches\/ucm592549.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">steps<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that the agency is taking to enhance transparency of clinical trial information. The FDA is launching a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/Drugs\/DevelopmentApprovalProcess\/ucm589210.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pilot programme<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> whereby selected portions of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/downloads\/Drugs\/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation\/Guidances\/UCM073113.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">clinical study reports<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (CSRs) for nine recently approved new drug applications will be posted on the agency\u2019s website. Furthermore, to foster easier tracking of the progress of drug development, the FDA will use the ClinicalTrials.gov identifier number to link trials to FDA communications about specific drugs, including product labelling and the advisory committee meeting materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While it is tempting to say that this is \u201ca step in the right direction,\u201d the narrow scope of the pilot is cause for concern. \u00a0To begin with, the pilot programme is voluntary: the sponsors decide whether to share their CSR information and what to share. It is limited to just nine recently approved products, and not all trials sponsors submitted as part of their New Drug Application, but only the ones deemed &#8220;pivotal.&#8221; CSRs for unapproved or withdrawn products will remain buried, and CSRs describing trials for unapproved indications of products on the market (i.e., &#8220;off label&#8221; use) will also remain out of sight. There is no arrangement for sharing CSRs of old so-called &#8220;legacy&#8221; drugs, i.e. the majority of drugs in use today. CSRs will also be redacted prior to release, which may (or may not) limit their utility for clinicians, researchers, and the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/downloads\/Drugs\/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation\/Guidances\/UCM073113.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CSR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> contains an unabridged and comprehensive description of the clinical problem, design, conduct, and results of a clinical trial, following a structure and content guidance prescribed by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/downloads\/Drugs\/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation\/Guidances\/UCM073113.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">International Conference on Harmonisation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Because this report also incorporates tables and figures, with appendices containing the protocol, statistical analysis plan, sample case report forms, and patient data listings (including narratives of all serious adverse events), it can be <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bmjopen.bmj.com\/content\/3\/2\/e002496\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">thousands of pages in length<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. CSRs differ from trial datasets (i.e., electronic individual patient data [IPD]) in that they are paper (or mostly PDF) documents and most data are already aggregated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To obtain marketing approval of drugs for a specific indication, pharmaceutical companies submit CSRs and other required materials to regulatory authorities. The pilot programme marks the first time the FDA is proactively releasing CSRs. Although one could always request CSRs through the Freedom of Information Act, the FDA has historically avoided release. In stark contrast, the European Medicines Agency has released millions of pages of CSRs since 2010 under its <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ema.europa.eu\/docs\/en_GB\/document_library\/Other\/2010\/11\/WC500099473.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Policy 0043<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and even more now under its additional <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ema.europa.eu\/docs\/en_GB\/document_library\/Other\/2014\/10\/WC500174796.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Policy 0070<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Up until now, Health Canada, despite its commitment to transparency, has considered CSRs &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/03\/08\/honouring-vanessa\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">confidential business information.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Of note, the comparability and consistency of information contained in CSRs for the same drug-indication pairs, and the &#8220;pivotal trials&#8221; submitted to multiple regulatory authorities is unknown. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For those who believe health care decisions should be based on the totality of evidence, CSRs have become a gem of information for evaluating the efficacy and safety of drugs because they are full of details that are often missing in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3586134\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">public domain<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Above all, the protocols and results of many trials, including those submitted to regulatory authorities, are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19941636\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">not published<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Furthermore, outcomes associated with positive or statistically significant results are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18769481\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">more likely to be reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> than outcomes associated with negative or null results. When journal articles were compared to CSRs, we (and others) have found that the information in the public domain cannot be trusted at face value. Outcomes are &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1056\/NEJMsa0906126\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">switched&#8221;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Efficacy results are &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/28842290\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cherry picked&#8221;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Adverse events, including the most serious ones, are grossly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/27649528\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">under-reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the publications. Inaccurate and selective reporting puts the health of the public at stake. Releasing CSRs enables independent scrutiny, for example to identify <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/28529187\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">outcomes assessed but not presented to the public<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, one central step towards protecting and advancing public health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While I applaud and welcome the initiatives that FDA is taking to enhance the transparency of its decision making, how, I wonder, can the scientific community raise their game in making use of the wealth of information contained in CSRs? Until now, it is debatable whether the value of CSRs is fully appreciated by the average clinicians. While methodological investigations have been carried out by a handful of academic researchers who are keen on fixing the pervasive problem of selective reporting and transforming the landscape of clinical trial data sharing, very few systematic reviews on drug interventions have included data from CSRs. One recent <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/methods.cochrane.org\/sites\/default\/files\/public\/uploads\/1_draft_guidance_for_consultation_17_nov_17.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">survey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of 160 systematic review authors (over 7,000 invited) found that only 20 authors requested regulatory data and only 12 included CSRs in their systematic reviews. This observation implies that systematic reviewers need <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/29057573\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">guidance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, training, and resources to disentangle the rich information contained in CSRs. Likewise, evidence users, particularly those who may believe selective reporting is a story of the past, should keep a vigilant eye on claims made in the published literature about the efficacy and safety of drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before full-scale release of CSRs, a pilot programme is essential to overcome logistical challenges of a future programme and collect user feedback. Can people find what they are looking for? Are the redactions \u2018reasonable\u2019 (i.e., are they necessary to protect participant privacy and legitimate commercial interests)? Will the redacted and abridged CSRs include sufficient details that help users judge the rigor and findings from trials (e.g., effectiveness and adverse event outcomes)?\u00a0How do CSRs released by FDA compare with those released by EMA? Is voluntary submission sufficient to achieve the transparency goal? I urge the scientific community to participate in the FDA\u2019s pilot programme and comment on the ease of access, as well as usability and completeness of data in the released CSRs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1073110517750615\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blueprint for Transparency<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> recommends 18 ways that FDA can be more transparent, which, when implemented, will lead to \u201csafer and more effective medical products, with lasting benefits for clinical care, scientific progress, and public health\u201d. I hope additional actions from FDA, suggested by the Blueprint, are still to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tianjing Li<\/strong> is an associate professor,\u00a0<\/em><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Center for Clinical Trials and Evidence Synthesis, Department of Epidemiology,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Competing interests<\/strong>:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My ongoing research is funded by a range of federal agencies, including the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH); the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute; and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The funding from FDA supports a project that identifies and quantifies patient preference information for a class of glaucoma surgical devices, which is unrelated to the current topic. In the past, I have received research funding from some of the same agencies, as well as the National Library of Medicine, NIH; National Institute of Aging, NIH; National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH; the Cochrane Collaboration; and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. I have not received any funding from any non-public sources.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, announced new steps that the agency is taking to enhance transparency of clinical trial information. 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