WHO Homes In On Best Practices For More Effective And Equitable Clinical Trials

Patient centricity, diversity, innovation and transparency are key topics in the World Health Organization’s new guidance that recommends best practices for clinical trials and complements existing international guidance in this area.

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The World Health Organization has released its much-awaited guidance on best practices for clinical trials, which addresses challenges such as poor trial design, limited diversity of participants, insufficient infrastructure and bureaucratic efficiencies that cost time, money and lives.

Key Takeaways
  • The WHO has issued new guidance to improve the design, conduct and oversight of clinical trials in countries of all income levels.

  • The guidance addresses a raft of issues affecting the current clinical trials landscape, such as limited participant diversity, insufficient infrastructure and bureaucratic inefficiencies.

  • The WHO document builds on existing clinical trial guidelines, such as those issued by the International Council for Harmonisation, the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences and the Good Clinical Trials Collaborative

The 76-page

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