Clinical trials operated in Egypt : big data analysis study

Abstract

Clinical trials are one of the most direction, approached by physicians/researchers in the medical sciences field. Clinicaltrials.gov is one of the most comprehensive databases around the world, in this field. It is including clinical trials going in United States, and outside United States. The website is mentioning that the database or US government is not scientifically responsible for these trials.

“The U.S. government does not review or approve the safety and science of all studies listed on this website” Egypt is one of the most important countries in the Middle East, with a long history in medical sciences as well. Provided in clinicaltrials.gov around 10 thousand trials going in Egypt.

Goal of this study: In this study the author analyzed the whole trials going in Egypt, to reflect the patterns and elements of these medical trials.

Research method: The method I used, is the quantitative analysis method to analyze all patterns of Egyptian clinical trials, such as:

• Physicians operated the clinical trial.
• Reasons and goals of each clinical trial (such as testing and experimenting a drug or a medication or a new way in treatment or diagnosis)
• Organization and affiliation related to responsibility or support for the clinical trial.
• Methods used and steps toward reaching a result for a clinical trial.
• Starting and processing and ending date of clinical trials.

To analyze all the above elements and patterns I analyzed all Egyptian clinical trials available in the database of clinicaltrials.gov to approach the goal of this study, and to reflect the effort and role of Egyptian clinical trials and its core subjects.

The total number found for clinical trials operated at Egypt in the clinicaltrials.gov database, was around 10530 (Ten thousand and five hundred and thirty) clinical trials.

Conclusions: The study and analysis of the whole clinical trials ran at Egypt, resulted and approached important conclusions, such as:       

• The most rated subject is “Postoperative Pain” as this is the most condition/subject studied in clinical trials ran in Egypt.
• The majority of clinical trials in Egypt, started 1/1/2019. Number of these trials were 129 clinical trials.
• The majority of “primary completed date” was December the first, 2023.
• Number of trials completed at that date were 64 clinical trials in Egypt.
• The majority of “completion date” was December, 2023.
• Number of trials completed at that date were 72 clinical trials in Egypt.
• The majority of “first posted date” was May, 2023.