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Global Update

Indian Pediatrics 2007; 44:398

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Online Resources for Medical Research

The modern day medical research can be less time and effort consuming using the internet resources. The information for bibliographic databases, funding of the desired research, registries for registration of patients, randomization, data collection, analysis and publication are all available online.

Summary of Internet resources for Clinical Trials

Bibliographic Databases

National Library of Medicine – Medline

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

The Cochrane Collaboration–The Cochrane Library

http://www.cochranelibrary.com

Funding Information

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

http://www.cihr.gc.ca

US National Institutes of Health

http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/index.cfm

UK Medical Research Council

http://www.mrc.ac.uk/index/funding.htm

Clinical Trial Registries

National Institutes of Health – Clinical Trials.gov

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov

Current Controlled Trials - metaRegister of Controlled Trials

http://www.controlled-trials.com

Internet Randomization Services

Randomization.com

http://www.randomization.com

Online Analysis and Sample Size Calculation

Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis–SISA

http://home.clara.net/sisa/index.htm

Statpages.net

http://statpages.org/

Thus the internet may serve to enhance the speed of research and thus may lead to faster application of research accomplishments into clinical practice.

Sidharth Kumar Sethi,
Fellow in Pediatric Nephrology,
Division of Pediatric Nephrology,
Department of Pediatrics, AIIMS,
New Delhi 110029, India.
E-mail: [email protected]
 

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