Clinical Trials
Refer to the Resources section for Clinical Trials information.
An analysis in March 2010 showed 5385 registered clinical trials were being conducted worldwide in children, and 459 were actively recruiting at sites in Canada. Canada was second only to the USA in the total number of pediatric trials being conducted; and third in the world after Australia and the Netherlands in the number of trials per population of children. See the review of the pediatric clinical trials activity in Canada.
Initiatives
- StaR Child Health is an international quality improvement initiative started in 2009, that seeks to enhance the quality, ethics and reliability of paediatric clinical research by promoting the use of uniform standards for clinical studies with children. A first international StaR Summit was held in Amsterdam in October 2009. The second StaR Summit being co-organized with MICYRN, will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada September 10th and 11th, 2010. For more information about StaR Child Health and to view the Summit program see: http://www.ifsrc.org.
