[Clinical trials and good clinical practices. Results of a telephone survey in Basse-Normandie among 867 physicians].

In order to evaluate what doctors think about clinical trials in general, 867 of them practicing in western Normandy were polled by telephone. The majority of the doctors questioned (68.6%) said they were interested in participating in clinical trials. Moreover, a number of them (71.7%) had already taken part in such studies, most of which were non-comparative studies on drugs already on the market. 66.2% of the doctors said they were willing to participate in such trials but only 10% of the doctors questioned knew anything about Good Clinical Practice. Doctors practicing in this part of France appear to know little or nothing about Good Clinical Practice, however, while they are willing to take part in clinical research, they are insistant that trials should be of worthwhile interest.