CLINICAL TRIALS DATA
March 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE RECENTLY established database created by the European Clinical Trials Directive (EUDRACT) has come under fire from the European Science Foundation (ESF), which claims that its information is too tightly controlled to allow effective debate.Although the EUDRACT database was set up to provide European Union (EU) Member States with information on the safety of medicines used in clinical trials, data security standards set by the European Commission prevent independent non-regulatory organisations from accessing it.This, says the ESF, (a ...
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