The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) commented on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Statement on Public Disclosure of Clinical Trial Results; the deadline for comments was 15 November 2014. IQWiG’s researchers, who rely on complete clinical trial information in their daily work, welcome the update of the WHO resolution of 2005, which at that time led to the establishment of the WHO’s International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP), a meta-search engine for clinical trials.

Many trials are still not registered, registry entries not updated, and trial results not published – despite urgent appeals and ethical obligations. For instance, in its update of the Declaration of Helsinki, the World Medical Association stated: “Every research study involving human subjects must be registered in a publicly accessible database before recruitment of the first subject” and “Researchers have a duty to make publicly available the results of their research on human subjects and are accountable for the completeness and accuracy of their reports.”

For more details, go to: https://www.iqwig.de/en/press/press-releases/press-releases/iqwig-welcomes-who-statement-on-public-disclosure-of-clinical-trial-results.6430.html