Clinical Studies in Paediatric Otolaryngology Have Been Stopped and are Not Being Published

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Discontinuing and not publishing randomised controlled trials (RCTs) can waste resources, slow the progress of medical science, and weaken ethical standards across all specialties. Uncertainty persists regarding the incidence of abandoned or unreported RCTs including prevalent paediatric otolaryngology problems and treatments analysis of common paediatric otolaryngology RCTs that were completed and submitted to Clinical Trials. The registry's data were gathered, and publication status was determined. The corresponding realists were informed via email if a justification for the trial's termination or nonpublication could not be found after a thorough search. 260 RCTs remained after exclusion and were used in the study. Following analysis, it was discovered that of the 198 RCTs were abandoned. Program termination by the sponsor or management a lack of participant enrolment, difficulties in recruiting, or sluggish accrual were the most frequently cited reasons for RCT cessation. published RCTs were found. 36 (58%) of the stopped RCTs were never published, while of them did. In terms of the completed RCTs, 166 of the 198 completed trials.