DDF57 All clinical trials in Europe at your fingertips: Introduction to the public portal of the Clinical Trial Information System (CTIS)

Description

The workshop will consist of a short introduction into CTIS which will also include key terminology. Also the CTIS transparency rules will briefly be presented and discussed. Thereafter the key search functionalities will be introduced, findings trials in certain indications, from certain companies, developmental stages. How to search and download key documents will be shown. Then participants will experiment themselves with the system following some leads provided by the workshop leader. The last 30 minutes will be for Q&A around CTIS and its public portal.

The workshop is for anybody who is interested to learn about the key functionalities of the CTIS public portal. This may be for his or her own benefit as a potential trial participant, as a patient advocate, a medical affairs professional interested in competitor activities, a medical writer who wants to see how other companies approach the provision of key information on clinical trials, a transparency and disclosure professional evaluating results postings both in the scientific and lay summary by other companies. A basic understanding of clinical research is helpful, eg about clinical phases, indications, the relevance of inclusion and exclusion criteria. Ideally participants are familiar with the key documents in a clinical trial, ie the study protocol, informed consent form, etc. People with some knowledge about the way information is entered in CTIS may benefit a lot too.

Please bring your laptops to this session to be able to participate.