A clinical intervention research unit conducting clinical research within all specialties.
The Copenhagen Trial Unit (CTU) is an organizational entity within the Capital Region of Denmark. It is physically located at and administratively managed by Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Copenhagen Trial Unit
Centre for Clinical Intervention Research
The CTU
Vision
The CTU's vision is to:
Conduct world-class clinical intervention research that transforms patient care through innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
Create an inspiring and supportive work environment.
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Kamp CB, Petersen JJ, Faltermeier P, et al.
Beneficial and harmful effects of tricyclic antidepressants for adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis.
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The CARE Platform Trial
The CARE Platform Trial is a multicentre, non-commercial, randomised platform trial that builds on collaborations from the STEPCARE trial and the TTM trials. Through the CARE Platform Trial, this international collaboration aims to strengthen the evidence base for critical care in patients with cardiac arrest.
The ICE Project
The ICE Project brings together international experts to develop extensions to the SPIRIT 2025 and CONSORT 2025 guidelines, guiding the reporting of environmental outcomes in clinical trials.
These new guidelines, SPIRIT-ICE and CONSORT-ICE, will enable trialists to report measures such as carbon footprint, waste, and resource use alongside clinical outcomes.
SafeBoosC-IIIv Trial
Safeguarding the Brain of our Smallest Children
Newborn infants in need of mechanical ventilation are at high risk of a detrimental outcome, not only due to the underlying condition, but also due to complications from the mechanical ventilation itself. Such complications include pneumothorax, ventilation associated pneumonia, and hyperventilation causing vasoconstriction of the cerebral vasculature and possibly brain ischaemia.
CORE Outcome Set
The Patient Important Outcomes in Psychiatry (PIO-Psych) Initiative is an international research project working to create a core outcome set for adult mental health research. By focusing on what truly matters to patients, the initiative aims to make psychiatric research more meaningful, comparable, and useful for clinical practice worldwide.
Cochrane
The Copenhagen Trial Unit (CTU) hosts the Editorial Team Office of The Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group (CHBG). The CHBG is unprofitable and not-for-profit voluntary group, part of the Cochrane Collaboration, devoted to the preparation of evidence-based systematic reviews and providing training, guidance, and assistance to review authors
CEPRA
CEPRA is a research collaboration aimed to facilitate and support perioperative research programs including large pragmatic multi-centre trials.
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