Databases for Identifying Clinical Trials
Clinical Trials Databases
From the U.S. National Institutes of Health, provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers.
Cochrane Registry of Clinical Trials [via Cochrane Library or OVID's EBM Review Databases]
A bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others. CCTR includes reports published in conference proceedings and in many other sources not currently listed in MEDLINE or other bibliographic databases.
Current Controlled Trials
A database of ongoing controlled trials which has been developed by Current Controlled Trials Ltd, part of the Current Science Group of companies. It contains a meta Register of Controlled Trials (mRCT), which aims to provide online access to as comprehensive a listing as possible of ongoing and completed controlled trials in all areas of healthcare.
WHO ICTRP Search Portal
The International Clinical Trials Registry Platform Search Portal provides access to a central database containing the trial registration data sets from registries around the world.
Last Updated: 07 March 2011