From: Clinical research in Finland in 2002 and 2007: quantity and type
(n) | 2002 | Â | Â | Â | 2007 | Â | Â | Â |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Industry | Public | Health care4 | P value6 | Industry | Public | Health care4 | P value6 | |
(228) | (129) | (414) | (257) | (122) | (322) | |||
Type | ||||||||
Domestic drug research | 20.2 | 6.2 | 7.5 | <0.001 | 25.7 | 6.6 | 8.1 | <0.001 |
International drug research | 58.8 | 1.6 | 1.4 | <0.001 | 57.6 | 4.1 | 0.6 | <0.001 |
Other medical research | 21.1 | 92.2 | 91.1 | <0.001 | 16.7 | 89.3 | 91.3 | <0.001 |
Main content | ||||||||
Treatment | 80.3 | 23.2 | 48.3 | <0.001 | 87.5 | 33.6 | 46.0 | <0.001 |
Diagnostics and disease2 | 4.8 | 31.8 | 33.6 | <0.001 | 2.7 | 23.8 | 28.8 | <0.001 |
Biomedical3 | 7.0 | 23.3 | 5.6 | 0.478 | 3.1 | 16.4 | 4.7 | 0.328 |
Prevention | 6.1 | 15.5 | 5.3 | 0.673 | 2.7 | 13.1 | 4.7 | 0.212 |
Other + missing | 1.8 | 6.2 | 7.2 | 3.9 | 13.1 | 15.8 | ||
Approach | ||||||||
RCT | 43.0 | 7.8 | 3.9 | <0.001 | 59.9 | 6.6 | 4.3 | <0.001 |
Trial + intervention | 36.0 | 14.7 | 20.0 | <0.001 | 28.8 | 20.5 | 16.2 | <0.001 |
Observational | 16.2 | 59.6 | 54.1 | <0.001 | 5.8 | 56.6 | 61.5 | <0.001 |
Documents + registers | 1.3 | 3.1 | 7.6 | <0.001 | 2.7 | 5.7 | 8.4 | 0.004 |
Other + missing | 3.5 | 14.8 | 14.4 | 2.8 | 10.6 | 9.6 | ||
Data collection site 2 | ||||||||
University hospital | 57.0 | 56.6 | 72.5 | <0.001 | 38.5 | 38.5 | 53.4 | <0.001 |
Other public health care facility | 9.6 | 16.4 | 15.5 | 0.486 | 16.7 | 18.9 | 26.7 | 0.760 |
Private care | 16.3 | 3.8 | 2.4 | <0.001 | 17.9 | 3.3 | 1.7 | <0.001 |
Other place | 14.0 | 21.6 | 6.2 | <0.001 | 19.9 | 22.1 | 9.2 | <0.001 |
Missing | 3.1 | 1.6 | 3.4 | 7.0 | 17.2 | 9.0 | ||
Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | ||
Non-commercial 3 | 20.6 | 96.1 | 98.8 | <0.001 | 15.6 | 98.4 | 99.1 | <0.001 |
Multi-center study 5 | ||||||||
National | 46.1 | 34.9 | 16.4 | <0.001 | 46.7 | 33.6 | 22.0 | <0.001 |
International | 61.0 | 9.3 | 3.6 | <0.001 | 59.1 | 12.3 | 3.1 | <0.001 |