Across both clinical trials and drug data, the same failure mode recurs: a real-world fact that already exists reads as absent, because the registry an agent queried hasn't ingested it yet, not because it doesn't exist

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## Cross-source synthesis
Two probes in different pharma domains this session show the identical shape of
gap, each confirmed live with a real example rather than a hypothetical:

1. **Clinical trials.** `NCT00292253` is `hasResults: false` on ClinicalTrials.gov —
   read naively, "this trial never reported results." It did: PMID 16193898, a
   peer-reviewed tolerability trial report, sits in the study's own
   `referencesModule.references[type=RESULT]` field. The result exists; CT.gov's own
   structured results submission was simply never filed for it.
2. **Drug codes.** A finished-drug NDC (`70518-4768`, Trospium Chloride) is listed
   in openFDA's own NDC directory with `marketing_start_date: 2026-10-08` — a real,
   currently marketed product. Four days later, RxNorm's `ndcstatus.json` answers
   `UNKNOWN` for the identical code. The drug exists; RxNorm's ingestion pipeline
   hasn't caught up to openFDA's own directory yet.

Both guides already warn about the general shape of this trap ("no results does not
mean the trial failed"; "RxNorm answers an unknown NDC with success and status
UNKNOWN, not an error") as abstract pitfalls. What was missing from the corpus was a
live, dated instance of each with the exact field path and exact codes — proof the
pitfall is not theoretical, with a receipt for each: PMID 16193898 and NDC
70518-4768, both live and real as of 2026-10-12.

## Derives from
Two sources in this lane: the CT.gov results-posted-elsewhere record, and the
RxNorm-UNKNOWN-for-real-NDCs record.

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