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Box 6.2.h: Examples of national and international trials registers 

·         The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) – Pharmaceutical Industry Clinical Trials database:

o        www.cmrinteract.com/clintrial/

·         The Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry: 

o        www.anzctr.org.au/

·         CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service:

o        www.centerwatch.com/

·         Chinese Clinical Trial Register:

o        www.chictr.org/Default.aspx

·         ClinicalTrials.gov register:

o        clinicaltrials.gov/

·         Community Research & Development Information Service (of the European Union) (trials and other research):

o        cordis.europa.eu/en/home.html

·         Current Controlled Trials metaRegister of Controlled Trials (mRCT) – active registers: 

o        www.controlled-trials.com/mrct/

·         Current Controlled Trials metaRegister of Controlled Trials (mRCT) – archived registers: 

o        www.controlled-trials.com/mrct/archived

·         European Medicines Agency (EMEA):

o        www.emea.europa.eu/index/indexh1.htm

·         German trials register – not yet launched. Final agreement reached 30 August 2007 – will be included under the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform Search Portal – for further details as and when available see:

o        www.who.int/trialsearch

·         Hong Kong clinical trials register - HKClinicalTrials.com: 

o        www.hkclinicaltrials.com/

·         Indian clinical trials registry - Clinical Trials Registry-India (CTRI): 

o        www.ctri.in

·         International Clinical Trials Registry Platform Search Portal:

o        www.who.int/trialsearch

·         International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) Clinical Trials Portal:

o        www.ifpma.org/clinicaltrials.html

·         International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number Register: 

o        www.controlled-trials.com/isrctn/

·         Netherlands trial register (Nederlands Trialregister – in Dutch):

o        www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/index.asp

·         South African National Clinical Trial Register:

o        www.sanctr.gov.za/

·         UK Clinical Research Network Portfolio Database:

o        portal.nihr.ac.uk/Pages/Portfolio.aspx

·         UK Clinical Trials Gateway:

o        www.controlled-trials.com/ukctr/

·         UK National Research Register (NRR) (trials and other research – archived September 2007 – see UK Clinical Trials Gateway):

o        portal.nihr.ac.uk/Pages/NRRArchive.aspx

·         University hospital Medical Information Network (UMIN) Clinical Trials Registry (for Japan) – UMIN CTR:

o        www.umin.ac.jp/ctr/