The Australian clinical trial regulatory process reduces the time to site initiation, by ONLY requiring ethics committee/clinical site approval, followed by a notification to Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). But this year, times to site initiation improved further, with the online clinical trial notification (CTN) scheme.

Since July 1, 2015, study sponsors have been notifying the TGA online, with the mere click of a mouse, lodging payment, gaining an invoice and declaring readiness of a site in minutes.

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