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Clinical Trials – 10 Years of National Collaboration
On May 20, Clinical Trials Day is celebrated around the world. To mark the occasion, the Swedish Research Council is highlighting ten years of national collaboration on clinical trials in Sweden with a publication on the progress made.
Over the past ten years, the Swedish Research Council has worked to strengthen and develop the conditions for clinical trials in Sweden. An important part of this development has been the establishment of the national support structure Clinical Trials Sweden, where the country’s six healthcare regions collaborate through regional nodes. Shared contact channels, support, and services have gradually created better conditions for researchers, research staff, and companies to conduct clinical trials throughout the country.
The Swedish Research Council also works with statistics, analysis, and monitoring in this area. Among other things, this work aims to create better opportunities to track developments over time, identify needs, and contribute to more targeted initiatives. Did you know, for example, that the Swedish Ethical Review Authority and the Swedish Medical Products Agency together approve over 2,500 medical research projects each year, that Medicinal product trials account for only about 10 percent of all clinical trials, and that 80 percent of all clinical trials are conducted within a single healthcare region, without collaboration with other regions?
Read more about developments over the past ten years and gain insights from individuals who have contributed in various ways to advancing this work in the Swedish Research Council’s new publication Clinical Trials – 10 Years of National Collaboration.
Publication: Clinical Trials – 10 Years of National Collaboration (In Swedish) External link.
Why Clinical Trials Day is observed
Clinical Trials Day is observed in memory of the Scottish physician James Lind, who on May 20, 1747, initiated what is often described as one of the first controlled clinical trials.
The study was conducted aboard a ship in the British Navy, where sailors suffering from scurvy were divided into groups that received different treatments. The sailors who were given citrus fruits improved rapidly, a finding that later proved to be of great significance for understanding the disease.
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