List of Global Clinical Trial Registries
Introduction
Registries are data collection tools typically accustomed better understand long-term trends in a very specific population, as patients with a specific disease or exposure to a specific treatment. However, if designed appropriately, registries are often used as a knowledge source within which clinical trials may be performed. WHO regards trial registration as the publication of an internationally-agreed set of information about the design, conduct and administration of clinical trials. These details are published on a publicly accessible website managed by a registry conforming to WHO standards
What are Clinical Trials?
Clinical trials are research studies that are conducted in people so as to check and test new medical treatments, like drugs, vaccines, medical devices, medical procedures and diagnostic tests. Clinical trials may additionally be conducted to review new combinations of treatments or to match treatments, or check an already available treatment for replacement use.
Many countries regulatory authorities or their national medical research institutions manage clinical trial registries and here are some of the major clinical trial registry platforms mentioned as below:
1. gov (USA)
ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and results database of publicly and privately supported research studies conducted in the United States and around the world. Sponsors or investigators of certain clinical trials are required by U.S. law to register their trials on and submit summary results to ClinicalTrials.gov. Other international policies also require trial registration. Explore 382,845 research studies in all 50 states and in 220 countries. ClinicalTrials.gov is a resource provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. ClinicalTrials.gov is a database of privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world.
Website link- https://clinicaltrials.gov/
2. Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR)
In order to fulfill the prospective registration requirement, i.e. obtain registration number (ACTRN) prior to enrollment of the first participant, we recommend that Australian and New Zealand registrants commence the registration process at least three weeks prior to the anticipated recruitment start date. All other registrants should allow substantially longer.
Website Link-https://www.anzctr.org.au/
3. International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP)
The mission of the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform is to ensure that a complete view of research is accessible to all those involved in health care decision making. This will improve research transparency and will ultimately strengthen the validity and value of the scientific evidence base.
Website Link-https://www.who.int/clinical-trials-registry-platform
4. Clinical Trial Registry- India (CTRI)
The vision of the CTRI is to ensure that every clinical trial conducted in the region is prospectively registered with full disclosure of the trial data set items. While this register is meant primarily for trials conducted in India, the CTRI will also accept the registration of trials conducted in other countries in the region, which do not have a Primary Registry of its own.
Website Link-http://ctri.nic.in/Clinicaltrials/login.php
5. European Union Clinical Trials Register
The EU Clinical Trials Register contains information on interventional clinical trials on medicines conducted in the European Union (EU), or the European Economic Area (EEA) which started after 1 May 2004. The Register enables you to search for information in the EudraCT database External link. This is the database used by national medicines regulators for data related to clinical trial protocols. The data on the results of these trials are entered into the database by the sponsors themselves and are published in this Register once the sponsors have validated the data.
Website Link-https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/
6. University hospital Medical Information Network (UMIN) Center
UMIN was established in 1989 as a cooperative organization for national medical schools in Japan, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, Sports and Technology (MEXT), Japan. Its most services are now made available to other health care researchers via the Internet. UMIN is now the largest and most versatile academic network information center for biomedical sciences in the world, and it is now considered as indispensable information infrastructure for the Japanese medical community.
Website Link- https://www.umin.ac.jp/ctr/ctr_regist.htm
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