[Correspondence] Initiation and publication time-lags of treatment trials for Ebola virus disease

The 2014 –16 Ebola virus disease outbreak in west Africa was an unprecedented crisis that exposed weaknesses in health systems, outbreak response, and research. Poor preparedness caused delays in initiating research and publishing results. It is important to examine what happened and to learn lessons to im prove in the future. Amanda Rojek and colleagues1 examined clinical research done during the epidemic and found 11 treatment trials registered with ClinicalTrials.gov or the ISRCTN registry, of which six are now published (one soon after the Review by Rojek and colleagues was published).
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research