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Musculoskeletal clinical trial failures

Review 252 stopped musculoskeletal clinical trials, including failure signals, sponsors, phases, and stop reasons from ClinicalTrials.gov records.

This page groups real ClinicalTrials.gov-derived stopped trial records. The strongest added signal is the stop-reason classification: 9 of these records are likely biological failure signals, while the rest may reflect operational, strategic, regulatory, funding, enrollment, or unclear stop reasons.

Total stopped trials252
Likely biological signals9
Shown below100

Dominant stop reasons

OPERATIONAL
129
OTHER/UNKNOWN
113
SAFETY
5
EFFICACY/FUTILITY
4
REGULATORY
1

Notable sponsors

Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
7
Stanford University
4
Amgen
3
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
3
Loyola University
3

Related phases

Phase II
72
Phase IV
60
Phase I
43
Phase III
38
Unknown
31

Crawlable stopped-trial records

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Showing up to 100 representative records from this slice. Each link opens the trial detail page with source attribution and stop-reason context.

NCT05941325: A Single-arm, Open-label, Single-center Prospective Study of Fruquintinib Combined With Envafolimab in the Treatment of Advanced or Unresectable Locally Advanced Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Phase II Advanced or Unresectable Locally Advanced Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcoma trial by Shanghai 6th People's Hospital. Stop reason: OPERATIONAL.

Recruitment is temporarily suspended to allow for operational adjustments at the study sites. The trial will resume once all site readiness requirements are met

NCT02508311: Albuterol to Improve Respiratory Strength in SCI

Phase IV Spinal Cord Injury trial by VA Office of Research and Development. Stop reason: OPERATIONAL.

Our ability to test subjects with tetraplegia in this interventional study was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our research pharmacist also informed us that oral albuterol is no longer being manufactured.

NCT02689024: Delirium in Elderly Patients With Trauma of the Hip

Phase IV Hip Fractures trial by Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA). Stop reason: OPERATIONAL.

recruitment too slow; intervention was standard care in patients who were not included; acute care pathways changed due to policy regarding hip fracture patients

NCT03042546: Calcium Sulfate Spacer in Open Tibia Fractures

Phase IV Open tíbia Fracture With Sub-segmental Bone Loss trial by University of Washington. Stop reason: OPERATIONAL.

Study halted prematurely and will not resume; participants are no longer being examined or receiving intervention. Low enrollment and PI leaving institution