What is included in clinical trial/study reports?

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The main idea is that a clinical trial report communicates what was found, how the study was conducted, and what those findings mean. So the report includes the findings (the results and outcomes observed), the methodologies (the study design, participant details, interventions, data collection, and the statistical analyses used), and the conclusions drawn from interpreting the data. It isn’t limited to raw data alone, which would be just the underlying numbers; it isn’t limited to the protocol, which describes planned methods but not the results; and it isn’t merely a record of funding information, which covers sponsorship rather than the study’s results or interpretation. In practice, reports also cover things like study limitations and context, but the essential trio is the results, the methods used to obtain them, and the conclusions drawn from those results.