In India, most principal investigators have run very few trials over the years.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the past, clinical trials run in India have been the subject of criticism. Among other steps to improve the trial ecosystem, for some time the government limited the number of trials that a Principal Investigator (PI) could run to three at a time. We were interested to know how many trials PIs in India tend to run at a time.

Methods

We accessed the 52,149 trial records hosted by the Clinical Trials Registry-India in April 2023. Of these, we shortlisted trials that had run in India, were interventional, and involved certain interventions such as drug, biological etc. We used multiple parameters, such as email ID, phone number etc. to determine whether one name always represented the same PI and whether two names corresponded to the same PI. We then determined ho

SUBMITTER: Borah R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11335508 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature