State Institute for Drug Control

Pursuant to Section 99 par. 1 indent f) (2) of Act No. 378/2007 Coll., on Pharmaceuticals and on Amendments to Some Related Acts (Act on Pharmaceuticals) as amended, the State Institute for Drug Control publishes information about clinical trials approved in the Czech Republic.
Database included clinical trials approved since the effect of the Act on Pharmaceuticals. Information about clinical trials from the year 2004 – 2007 are being supplemented continuously.
Database, according to Act, doesn´t include bioequivalence trials and clinical trials in phase I (i.e. first-in-man trials, the first stage of testing in human subjects).

Glossary of clinical trials terms:
Sponsor = An individual, company, institution or organization which takes responsibility for the initiation, management and/or financing of a clinical trial.
Study code / Protocol number = trial identifying number for sponsor
EudraCT number = EU trial identifying number
Subject = an individual who participates in a clinical trial, either as a recipient of the investigational product(s) or as a control; patient or healthy volunteer.
MEK = Ethics Committee for Multicentric Clinical Trials
Double-blind study = A clinical trial design in which neither the participating individuals (subjects) nor the study staff knows which participants are receiving the investigational drug and which are receiving a placebo or another therapy.
Randomized trial = A study in which participants/subjects are randomly (i.e. by chance) assigned to one of two or more treatment arms of a clinical trial.
Multicentric trial = a clinical trial conducted according to a single protocol but at more than one site and therefore, carried out by more than one investigator.
Placebo = an inactive pill, liquid, or powder that has no treatment value.