Repeated inquiry produces only excuses. I have volunteered to write up more than one study, but the sponsors demurred. We also need papers for our careers. We have the statistical expertise in-house and they have to have something to do. There is no recourse.
Information is power and total information is total power.
Eventually I got to be an author on a number of abstracts and papers describing the results of the research, some of it of moment. So the investigator s motivation is to obtain a modicum of academic support and give one s patients access to promising technologies. Participation rarely pays off. Clinician academicians could do it for the visit fees, which exceed those obtained from practice but usually there are not many of these, in comparison to coordinator visits, so the financial reward is limited. Some investigators become lecturers, which is more lucrative, but academicians do not have to carry out clinical trials to join the lecture circuit.