BACKGROUND Regardless of worries over clinical research and various initiatives to overcome problems, few quantitative data on the numbers and type of clinical research exist. This article aims to describe the volume and type of clinical research in 2002 and 2007 in Finland. METHODS The research law in Finland requires all medical research to be submitted to regional ethics committees (RECs)....

This work was partially supported by NSF grant ACI-9982274, by LLNL/DOE grant #B347714, and by Army High Performance Computing Research Center contract number DAAH04-95-C-0008. The content of this work does not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the government and no official endorsement should be inferred. Access to computing facilities was provided by AHPCRC and the Minnesota Super...

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