Chinese Clinical Trial Registry: mission, responsibility and operation

As a national public clinical trial registry and a recognized Primary Registry of the WHO ICTRP, the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR) has responsibility to disseminate knowledge about clinical trial transparency, which is an important ethical issue for healthcare studies involving humans, and to promote the quality of healthcare studies in China. This article describes the mission, policy and operation of the ChiCTR. We discuss the need …