Autopsy report · NCT02307708

Reeducation of Chronic Achilles Tendinopathy by Wearing Shoes Inclined Versus Reeducation by Kinesitherapy

“recruitment difficulties (few patients meeting inclusion criteria, refusal of patients to stop sport activities during 6 weeks,...)”

The sponsor’s own words in the registry.

Life of this trial

• Registered 6 months before it started.
• Ran for about 1 year 11 months before it stopped.
• 16 participants enrolled.
• No results are posted on the registry.

Vital statistics

Status

Terminated

Phase

Na

Sponsor

Nantes University Hospital

Sponsor type

University, hospital or other

Conditions

Tendinopathy; Rupture of Achilles Tendon; Chronic Disease

Interventions

8° incline shoe; kinesitherapy

Participants

16

Sites

2

Countries

France

Trials that died the same way

• All-On-4® Treatment Concept
  “The study stopped as the performance of the study showed insufficient patient recruitment.” (60% match in meaning)
• RCVS: The Rational Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment
  “Failure to recruit patients meeting inclusion criteria.” (59% match in meaning)
• Pleural Suction Additional to Thoracostomy Tube for Traumatic Hemothorax
  “It was not possible to achieve adequate recruitment to complete the necessary sample. The rate at which patients are recruited does not allow for continued participation” (58% match in meaning)
• MHH-HCV-NPM-Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of HCV-infection During and After Treatment With OBV/PTV/r and DSV
  “The recruitment was stopped prematurely by the sponsor in accordance with the principal investigator because of the difficulties to recruit patients and to achieve the planned numbers of patients within a reasonable time frame.” (57% match in meaning)
• Surgery Induced Trauma After Total Versus Medial Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty (SITA)
  “The study was terminated due to poor participant accrual. Recruitment was limited by competing clinical studies at the participating site, and the resources required to prolong the recruitment period were not available.” (57% 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.