Figure 1

General practice clinical drug trials in Norway 1998 to 2007. Applications to the Norwegian Medicines Agency (NoMA) for industry initiated or researcher initiated clinical drug trials conducted entirely or partly in general practice as identified by hand search of the clinical trials archive. A total number of 2,054 clinical drug trials during the time period was calculated (personal communication from Ingvild Aaløkken, Head of section, Preclinical assessment and clinical trials, NoMA, 2008; see also [16, 20]).