Apparently India is launching a clinical trial registry for all trials conducted in India. Only recently did I learn that the WHO is trying to set up a global registry platform, and the WHO is one of the funding agencies for the Indian registry. Another piece of information that I found out about only recently was that several medical journals have started demanding that patients be registered prior to accepting a publication. It’s an interesting trend. One of the primary reasons for clinical trial registries is to prevent abuse of people in third world countries, but it is also interesting to see medical journals require essentially “open data” as part of publication. Not sure how widespread this is, but I got the impression that it is becoming more prevalent.
Trendspotting: Clinical trial registries
Apparently India is launching a clinical trial registry for all trials conducted in India. Only recently did I learn that the WHO is trying to set up a global registry platform, and the WHO is one of the funding agencies for the Indian registry. Another piece of information that I found out about only recently was that several medical journals have started demanding that patients be registered prior to accepting a publication. It’s an interesting trend. One of the primary reasons for clinical trial registries is to prevent abuse of people in third world countries, but it is also interesting to see medical journals require essentially “open data” as part of publication. Not sure how widespread this is, but I got the impression that it is becoming more prevalent.
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