Placement of Trials Increasingly Dispersed

The percentage of registered clinical trials being conducted at investigative sites outside of the U.S. continues to rise. According to data provided by http://ClinicalTrials.gov/ on the distribution of locations for all trials registered on the website, 45% reside in non-U.S. geographies.

The U.S., of course, continues to be the most active location for clinical research by size, with the country still home to 40% of all registered studies in the world. Six percent, or 10,572, of those trials in the http://ClinicalTrials.gov/ database have sites located in the U.S. as well as other global regions.

As of Sept. 23, a href="http://www.ClinicalTrials.gov" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://ClinicalTrials.gov/ included entries on 175,249 studies, with locations in 187 countries.