Focusing on rare diseases in China: are we there yet?

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

Harrison X. Bai¹  Ashley M. Lee²  Chang Su³  Li Yang⁴ 

[1] Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia 19104, PA, USA;Mallinckrodt Institude of Radiology, Washingto University in Saint Louis, 510 S Kingshighway Blvd, St. Louis 63110, MO, USA;Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, 210S. 33rd street, Suite 240 Skirkanich Hall, Philadelphia 19104, PA, USA;Department of Neurology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, No. 139 Middle Renmin Road, Changsha 410011, Hunan, PR China

关键词: Clinical trials;    Research papers;    China;    Rare disease;   

Others  :  1230395
DOI  :  10.1186/s13023-015-0361-3

 received in 2015-10-12, accepted in 2015-10-21,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

The Chinese researchers have made significant progress in studying rare diseases in the recent years. From 2000 to 2014, 269 out of 1892 clinically relevant original research papers published on high impact journals by Chinese institutions, and 2678 out of 6040 clinical trials conducted by Chinese institutions and registered at ClinicalTrial.gov are focused on rare diseases. The number of research papers and of clinical trials has shown a steady trend of increase. Creating public databases for rare disease will escalate progress in rare disease and enable multicenter studies.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Yang et al.

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