Managing Clinical Trials

Resources and information to manage clinical trails and recruit participants.

Educational efforts aimed at the public and health care providers raise awareness of the concept of clinical research and the important role it plays in improving health and quality of life.

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Recruiting Participants

Office of Patient Recruitment
The Office of Patient Recruitment serves to educate the public about clinical study participation at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD.
Search the Studies
Explore an extensive registry of publicly supported clinical studies conducted mostly in Bethesda, MD, and find a study that fits your symptoms.
ClinicalTrials.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov is a place to learn about 605,156 studies with locations in all 50 states and in 226 countries and territories.

Educate and raise awareness

Clinical research should be seen as the social good that it is. The first step in tackling this challenge is regularly getting the public to think about participating in clinical research.

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Regulatory Toolbox

The Regulatory Toolbox Working Group was established in 2019 as an NIH-wide collaboration to provide regulatory information and guidance to the FDA regulated community within the NIH Intramural Research Program.

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List of Patient Registries

Registries can provide health care professionals and researchers with first-hand information about people with certain conditions, both individually and as a group, and over time, to increase our understanding of that condition.

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