A large number of COVID-19 interventional clinical trials were registered soon after the pandemic onset: a descriptive analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

There is a pressing need for evidence-based interventions to address the devastating clinical and public health effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The number of registered trials related to COVID-19 is increasing by the day. The objective of this study was to describe the characteristics of the currently registered interventional clinical trials related to COVID-19.

Methods

We searched the World Health Organization's International Clinical Trials Registry Platform on May 15th, 2020. We included any entry that is related to COVID-19. We abstracted and then descriptively analyzed the following characteristics of the registered trials: study design, status, phase, primary endpoints, experimental interventions, and geographic lo

SUBMITTER: Nasrallah AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7278640 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature