Clinical Trials Registry – India
Clinical Trials Registry – India (CTRI) is the government of India's official clinical trial registry. The National Institute of Medical Statistics of the Indian Council of Medical Research established the CTRI on 20 July 2007. Since 2009 the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization has mandated that anyone conducting clinical trials in India must preregister before enrolling any research participants. History In 2004 the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors published the ICMJE recommendations, which advocated that medical journals only publish clinical research if the researchers have registered it. This statement had global influence and started conversations about clinical trial registration in India. The Indian Council of Medical Research established the CTRI on 20 July 2007. By the end of 2007 the registry indexed 31 trials. In February 2008 various editors of medical journals in India pledged to avoid publishing articles about any clinical trial in India which was not registered. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation made trial registration mandatory on 15 June 2009. The rule was that researchers must preregister trials before the enrollment of any research participants. In April 2018 the CTRI reiterated this rule, saying that there had been a practice of starting clinical trials and enrolling