The International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) is a platform for the registration of clinical trials operated by the World Health Organization. [1]
The ICTRP combines data from multiple cooperating clinical trials registries to generate a global view of clinical trials worldwide, with a search portal that allows access to the entire dataset. [2] [3] It requires a minimum standard set of database fields, the WHO Trial Registration Data Set, to be present for a trial to be registered. [4] All entries are given a Universal Trial Number (UTN) that identifies them uniquely. [5]
The organization has sought to assist various national governments in establishing their own clinical trials databases. [6]
It combines data from the following primary registries and data providers: [7] [8]