Autopsy report · NCT01757951

Unimalleolar Versus Bimalleolar Fixation in Bi- or Trimalleolar Ankle Fracture

“Partly due to financial issues and changes in study staff work placements”

The sponsor’s own words in the registry.

Life of this trial

• Registered 10 months after it had already started.
• Suspended: paused, and may or may not restart.
• 126 participants planned (an estimate, not an actual count).

Vital statistics

Status

Suspended

Phase

Na

Sponsor

University of Oulu

Sponsor type

University, hospital or other

Conditions

Trauma

Interventions

Unimalleolar fixation; Bimalleolar fixation

Participants

126 (planned, not actual)

Sites

1

Countries

Finland

Trials that died the same way

• Vitamin D 2 to Dialysis Patients
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• Transcutaneous Intercostal Nerve Stimulation in Spinal Cord Injury
  “Lack of study staff” (68% match in meaning)
• Nitrite Infusion in Islet Cell Transplantation
  “Lack of eligible subjects, lack of staffing” (67% match in meaning)
• Establishing Functional Biomarkers for Spaced Theta-Burst Stimulation
  “Change in study personnel.” (67% match in meaning)
• Exploring the Effect of Mindfulness on Quality of Life (QoL) in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
  “logistical staffing difficulties that affected recruitment and study conduct” (63% match in meaning)

Look deeper

• The official registry record (the source of truth)
• Record history: every change the sponsor made
• Open it in the database

Everything here comes from the current ClinicalTrials.gov record. The timeline uses the record’s dates; dates marked planned are the sponsor’s plans. The cause of death is an automatic, unverified label. This is research information, not medical advice.