International Clinical Trials Registry Platform

{{Short description|World Health Organization trials registry}}

The International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) is a platform for the registration of clinical trials operated by the World Health Organization.{{Cite web|title=WHO {{!}} About the WHO ICTRP|url=http://www.who.int/ictrp/about/en/|access-date=2020-10-17|website=WHO}}

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.{{Cite web|last=Karam|first=Ghassan|date=2020-05-15|title=The WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform: Providing global clinical trial information to all|url=https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-medicine/2020/05/15/the-who-international-clinical-trials-registry-platform-providing-global-clinical-trial-information-to-all/|access-date=2020-10-17|website=On Medicine|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|date=2020-09-01|title=WHO: International Clinical Trials Registry Platform|url=https://www.genengnews.com/resources/best-of-the-web/who-international-clinical-trials-registry-platform/|access-date=2020-10-17|website=GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News|language=en-US}} It requires a minimum standard set of database fields, the WHO Trial Registration Data Set, to be present for a trial to be registered.{{Cite web|title=WHO {{!}} WHO Data Set|url=http://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111116024224/http://www.who.int/ictrp/network/trds/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 16, 2011|access-date=2020-10-17|website=WHO}} All entries are given a Universal Trial Number (UTN) that identifies them uniquely.{{Cite web|title=WHO {{!}} The Universal Trial Number (UTN)|url=http://www.who.int/ictrp/unambiguous_identification/utn/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326225216/http://www.who.int/ictrp/unambiguous_identification/utn/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 26, 2012|access-date=2020-10-17|website=WHO}}

The organization has sought to assist various national governments in establishing their own clinical trials databases.

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It combines data from the following primary registries and data providers:{{Cite web |title=Primary registries |url=https://www.who.int/clinical-trials-registry-platform/network/primary-registries |access-date=2024-04-18 |website=www.who.int |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Data providers |url=https://www.who.int/clinical-trials-registry-platform/network/data-providers |access-date=2024-04-18 |website=www.who.int |language=en}}

• Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR)
• Brazilian Clinical Trials Registry (ReBec)
• Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR)
• Clinical Research Information Service (CRiS), Republic of Korea
• ClinicalTrials.gov
• Clinical Trials Information System (CTIS), European Medicines Agency
• Clinical Trials Registry - India (CTRI)
• Cuban Public Registry of Clinical Trials (RPCEC)
• EU Clinical Trials Register (EU-CTR)
• German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS)
• Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (IRCT)
• ISRCTN (UK)
• International Traditional Medicine Clinical Trial Registry (ITMCTR)
• Japan Registry of Clinical Trials (jRCT)
• Japan Primary Registries Network (JPRN)
• Lebanese Clinical Trials Registry (LBCTR)
• Overview of Medical Research in the Netherlands (OMON)
• Thai Clinical Trials Registry (TCTR)
• Pan African Clinical Trial Registry (PACTR)
• Peruvian Clinical Trial Registry (REPEC)
• Sri Lanka Clinical Trials Registry (SLCTR)