Clinical trials submitted in marketing-authorisation applications to the European Medicines Agency: Overview of patient recruitment and the geographical location of investigator sites. Containing data from 2005 to 2011

This report provides an overview of the distribution of the number of patients, investigator sites and pivotal clinical trials included in MAAs submitted to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on the number of sites subject to inspection and the geographic location of these inspections.

This report was first published in 2009 with the data from MAAs submitted between 2005 and 2008. The second report, containing data up to 2009, was published in 2010 and this is the third report, adding data from MAAs submitted in 2010 and 2011.