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Table 1 Characteristics of included clinical trials

From: Delays in reporting and publishing trial results during pandemics: cross sectional analysis of 2009 H1N1, 2014 Ebola, and 2016 Zika clinical trials

Trial Characteristics; n (%) unless noted

Total

(n = 333)

H1N1

(n = 261; 78%)

Ebola

(n = 60; 18%)

Zika

(n = 12; 4%)

Number of participants; median (IQR)

175 (89–445)

200 (117–468)

97 (53–322)

49 (37–143)

Fundinga

  Industry

206 (62%)

170 (65%)

31 (52%)

5 (42%)

  Federal Government

94 (28%)

56 (22%)

34 (57%)

4 (33%)

  University

89 (27%)

62 (24%)

23 (38%)

4 (33%)

  Other

35 (11%)

24 (9%)

11 (18%)

0 (0%)

Trial Phase

  Phase I

59 (18%)

20 (8%)

30 (50%)

9 (75%)

  Phase IIb

96 (29%)

82 (31%)

14 (23%)

0 (0%)

  Phase IIIc

79 (24%)

74 (28%)

5 (8%)

0 (0%)

  Phase IV

54 (16%)

54 (21%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

  Other

45 (14%)

31 (12%)

11 (18%)

3 (25%)

Intervention Type

  Drug/biologic

44 (13%)

30 (11%)

14 (23%)

0 (0%)

  Vaccine

276 (83%)

225 (86%)

42 (70%)

9 (75%)

  Other

13 (4%)

6 (2%)

4 (7%)

3 (25%)

Source Register

  ClinicalTrials.gov

263 (79%)

204 (78%)

48 (80%)

11 (92%)

  European Union Clinical Trials Register

32 (10%)

32 (12%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

  Clinical Trials Registry of India

11 (3%)

10 (4%)

0 (0%)

1 (8%)

  Pan African Clinical Trials Registry

6 (2%)

0 (0%)

6 (10%)

0 (0%)

  Japan Primary Registries Network

6 (2%)

4 (2%)

2 (3%)

0 (0%)

  Other Registry

15 (5%)

11 (4%)

4 (7%)

0 (0%)

Recruiting Status in Registry

  Enrollment completed

286 (86%)

225 (86%)

51 (85%)

10 (83%)

  Enrollment not complete

11 (3%)

8 (3%)

3 (5%)

0 (0%)

  Stopped early

16 (5%)

14 (5%)

2 (3%)

0 (0%)

  Suspended/not currently enrolling

4 (1%)

2 (1%)

1 (2%)

1 (8%)

  Unknown status

16 (5%)

12 (5%)

3 (5%)

1 (8%)

  1. a Categories are not mutually exclusive
  2. b Includes trials labeled “phase I/II”
  3. c Includes trials labeled “phase II/III”