RE: clinical trials .gov6 Sep 2018 18:14
". At registration, the most common problem identified by the quality control review is insufficient specificity of outcome measures (eg, “safety”). At results reporting, the five most important problems by frequency of occurrence are invalid/inconsistent unit of measure, insufficient information about a scale, internal inconsistencies between different parts of a record, inclusion of written results or conclusions, and unclear baseline, or outcome measure."
Now, no one can say that VAL are manipulating the numbers because they havn't publicly released numbers, any numbers, nada , nothing which is highly unusual !
But a QC review such as this would pick up any such inconsistencies.