Mahmood Ahmad
Tahir Heart Institute
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Protocol: CT.gov Sponsor Overdue Debt

This protocol re-reads the older-study sponsor backlog as accumulated overdue years beyond the two-year results mark rather than as missing-results counts alone. Primary outputs compare sponsor-level overdue-debt stock, mean unresolved age, and raw missing-results stock among named sponsors with at least 100 older studies. The aim is to surface chronic silence as duration as well as count. Overdue debt is a timing measure derived from registry dates and does not itself assign legal responsibility or motive.

Outside Notes

Type: protocol
Primary estimand: Total unresolved years beyond the two-year results mark among named lead sponsors with at least 100 older studies
App: CT.gov Sponsor Overdue Debt dashboard
Code: https://github.com/mahmood726-cyber/ctgov-sponsor-overdue-debt
Date: 2026-03-29
Validation: FULL REGISTRY RUN

References

1. ClinicalTrials.gov API v2. National Library of Medicine. Accessed March 29, 2026.
2. DeVito NJ, Bacon S, Goldacre B. Compliance with legal requirement to report clinical trial results on ClinicalTrials.gov: a cohort study. Lancet. 2020;395(10221):361-369.
3. Zarin DA, Tse T, Williams RJ, Carr S. Trial reporting in ClinicalTrials.gov. N Engl J Med. 2016;375(20):1998-2004.

AI Disclosure

This work represents a compiler-generated evidence micro-publication built from structured registry data and deterministic summary code. AI was used as a constrained coding and drafting assistant for interface generation, packaging, and prose refinement, not as an autonomous author. The analytical choices, interpretation, and final outputs were reviewed by the author, who takes responsibility for the content.