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To the Editor: In their Commentary, Drs Partridge and Winer¹ discuss barriers to the sharing of results with patients who participate in clinical trials. In the more than 25 years I have entered patients in government-sponsored clinical trials, no principal investigator has ever forwarded me results of the clinical trials in which I entered my patients, except when I was included as an author. Participants in clinical trials do not get study results because their physicians do not receive them either.

Phillip Periman, MD
The Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center
Amarillo, Tex

1. Partridge AH, Winer EP. Informing clinical trial participants about study results. JAMA. 2002;288:363-365. FREE FULL TEXT

In Reply: As Dr Periman points out, physicians who enroll patients in clinical trials often do not learn about results until they are presented or published. Furthermore, in some cases, results are never reported at a meeting or published in a journal. If a system of routinely offering results of studies to participants in clinical trials is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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