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International Clinical Trials Registry Platform

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The International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) is a platform for the registration of clinical trials operated by the World Health Organization.[1]

The ICTRP combines data from multiple cooperating clinical trials registries to generate a global view of clinical trials worldwide, with a search portal that allows access to the entire dataset.[2][3] It requires a minimum standard set of database fields, the WHO Trial Registration Data Set, to be present for a trial to be registered.[4] All entries are given a Universal Trial Number (UTN) that identifies them uniquely.[5]

As of October 2020, it combines data from the following primary source registries:[6]

References

  1. ^ "WHO | About the WHO ICTRP". WHO. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  2. ^ Karam, Ghassan (2020-05-15). "The WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform: Providing global clinical trial information to all". On Medicine. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  3. ^ "WHO: International Clinical Trials Registry Platform". GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News. 2020-09-01. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  4. ^ "WHO | WHO Data Set". WHO. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  5. ^ "WHO | The Universal Trial Number (UTN)". WHO. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
  6. ^ "WHO | Primary Registries". WHO. Retrieved 2020-10-17.

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