[india-drug] WHO launches plan to register all clinical trials

["Malhotra Samir" <samirmalhotra345@yahoo.com>]

Heres an interesting bit of information:

WHO LAUNCHES PLAN TO REGISTER ALL CLINICAL TRIALS

The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched an effort with the 
lofty goal of registering every clinical trial ? including preliminary 
studies ? that tests treatments on patients or healthy volunteers 
globally.

As part of its International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, which 
aims to set standards for the way in which information on clinical 
studies is made available to the public, the WHO is also recommending that 
20 key details be disclosed at the time studies are begun. Specifics on just what those details would be were not made public.

The platform is a program designed to establish the norms and standards 
upon which international trial registration can take place ethically 
and scientifically, according to the WHO. The main components of the 
platform are:

Norms and standards on which trials to register, what information needs 
to be registered, who is responsible for registration; 

A "register network" of primary and associate registers that meet 
WHO-specified criteria for quality and acceptability; 

A coordinated process for detecting and resolving duplicate 
registrations and the assignment of a Universal Trial Reference Number to each unique trial worldwide; and 

A one-stop search portal for searching registers worldwide.
Registry administrators can sign up to receive policy updates from WHO 
at http://www.who.int/ictrp/register_contact_form/en/index.html.


Dr Samir Malhotra, MD (Physician), DM (Clinical Pharmacology) 
Fellow, American College of Clinical Pharmacology (F.C.P.)
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology 
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research [PGIMER] 
Chandigarh City, India