How COVID-19 has fundamentally changed clinical research in global health.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 has had negative repercussions on the entire global population. Despite there being a common goal that should have unified resources and efforts, there have been an overwhelmingly large number of clinical trials that have been registered that are of questionable methodological quality. As the final paper of this Series, we discuss how the medical research community has responded to COVID-19. We recognise the incredible pressure that this pandemic has put on researchers, regulators, and policy makers, all of whom were doing their best to move quickly but safely in a time of tremendous uncertainty. However, the research community's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has prominently highlighted many fundamental issues that exist in clinical trial research under the current system and

SUBMITTER: Park JJH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8049590 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature