Funding for clinical trials.
This paper provides a review of available funding sources for clinical trials, with emphasis on trials funded via the National Institutes of Health. Data from the NIH Inventory of Clinical Trials are used to summarize the cost and key design characteristics of NIH trials. The paper concludes with a discussion of some of the factors which add to the cost of trials.
D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000191:economics*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006801:Humans; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D012107:Research Design; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States; D014493:United States Department of Veterans Affairs