Table 3.

Registry to the http://clinicaltrials.gov register and status of the research ethics committee‐approved clinical trials

	Commercial sponsored clinical trials (651)	Non‐commercial sponsored clinical trials (127)	Total(778)
http://clinicaltrials.gov *	597 (91.7%)	71 (55.9%)	668 (85.9%)
Completed	433 (72.5%)	41 (57.7%)	474 (71.0%)
Terminated	98 (16.4%)	5 (7.0%)	103 (15.4%)
Active, not recruiting	42 (7.0%)	7 (9.9%)	49 (7.3%)
Recruiting	8 (1.3%)	4 (5.6%)	12 (1.8%)
Withdrawn prior to enrolment	4 (0.7%)	1 (1.4%)	5 (0.7%)
Approved for marketing	3 (0.5%)	0 (0.0%)	3 (0.4%)
Suspended	1 (0.2%)	1 (1.4%)	2 (0.3%)
Others	2 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (0.3%)
Unknown	6 (1.0%)	12 (16.9%)	18 (2.7%)

^* P < 0.001