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Table 2 Clinical drug trial applications in Norway 1998 to 2007

From: Clinical drug trials in general practice: a 10-year overview of protocols

Year

General practice trials

All clinical trials

 

Industry initiated (GP only)

Researcher initiateda

Total (GP only)

Industry initiated

Researcher initiated

Total

1998

17 (7)

0

17 (7)

186

50

236b

1999

16 (6)

0

16 (6)

161

28

189c

2000

23 (10)

1

24 (11)

173

65

238d

2001

22 (1)

0

22 (1)

158

62

220d

2002

16 (5)

2

18 (7)

143

50

193d

2003

14 (1)

1

15 (2)

151

50

201d

2004

22 (2)

1

23 (3)

171

60

231d

2005

18 (2)

1

19 (3)

139

55

194d

2006

20 (1)

1

21 (2)

113

60

173d

2007

21 (3)

0

21 (3)

126

53

179d

Total

189 (38)

7

196 (45)

1,521

533

2,054

Mean/year

18.9 (3.8)

0.7

19.6 (4.5)

152.1

53.3

205.4

  1. Applications at the Norwegian Medicines Agency (NoMA) for clinical drug trials conducted entirely (general practitioners (GPs) only) or partly in general practice identified by hand searching of all the clinical trials in the archive. For comparison, an overview of all clinical trials is included.
  2. aAll researcher-initiated trials were GP only.
  3. bPersonal communication from Ingvild Aaløkken, Head of section, Preclinical assessment and clinical trials, NoMA, 2008.
  4. cSee [16].
  5. dSee [20].