UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, popularly known simply as "Children's", is part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the only hospital in Southwestern Pennsylvania dedicated solely to the care of infants, children, teens and young adults through around age 26.

There are 315 beds in Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.

During the past decade, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC conducted 430 clinical trials. In the 10-year time frame, 430 clinical trials started and 286 clinical trials were completed, i.e. on average, 66.5% percent of trials that started reached the finish line to date. In the past 5 years, 186 clinical trials started and 137 clinical trials were completed. i.e. 73.7% of trials that started reached the finish line.

Out of the total clinical trials conducted in "Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC" #1 sponsor was "Children's Oncology Group" with 199 trials, followed by "National Cancer Institute (NCI)" with 107 trials sponsored, "University of Pittsburgh" with 74 trials sponsored, "Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium" with 28 trials sponsored and "Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated" with 28 trials sponsored. Other sponsors include 486 different institutions and companies that sponsored additional 244 trials in total.

In terms of collaborators to trials, out of the total clinical trials conducted in "Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC" #1 collaborator was "National Cancer Institute (NCI)" with 239 trials as a collaborator, "National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)" with 28 trials as a collaborator, "Cystic Fibrosis Foundation" with 26 trials as a collaborator, "University of Pittsburgh" with 26 trials as a collaborator and "National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)" with 20 trials as a collaborator. Other collaborators include 464 different institutions and companies that were collaborators in the rest 258 trials.

According to Clinical.Site data, the most researched conditions in "Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC" are "Cystic Fibrosis" (61 trials), "Leukemia" (40 trials), "Unspecified Childhood Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific" (31 trials), "Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors" (29 trials) and "Recurrent Malignant Solid Neoplasm" (28 trials). Many other conditions were trialed in "Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC" in a lesser frequency.

Most popular intervention types in "Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC" are "Drug" (614 trials), "Other" (223 trials), "Biological" (150 trials), "Procedure" (129 trials) and "Radiation" (92 trials). Other intervention types were less common.

The name of intervention was led by "Laboratory Biomarker Analysis" (87 trials), "Placebo" (82 trials), "Cyclophosphamide" (50 trials), "Pharmacological Study" (49 trials) and "cyclophosphamide" (42 trials). Other intervention names were less common.

The vast majority of trials in "Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC" are 880 trials for "All" genders, 26 trials for "Male" genders and 10 trials for "Female" genders.

Currently, there are 314 active trials in "Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC". 4 are not yet recruiting, 162 are recruiting, 134 are Active, not recruiting, and 14 are Enrolling by invitation. In total, there were 501 completed trials in Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, 4 suspended trials, and 73 terminated clinical trials to date.

Out of the total trials that were conducted in Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, 173 "Phase 1" clinical trials were conducted, 290 "Phase 2" clinical trials and 248 "Phase 3" clinical trials were conducted as well. "Phase 4" trials included 24 trials, and there were also 97 trials that are defined as “Not Applicable".

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has several departments that took part in Clinical trials: "ENT Research Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh" - 8 trials, "Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC - General Academic Pediatric" - 5 trials, "UPMC Children's Eye Center of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh" - 3 trials, "Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC - Pediatric Infectious Diseases" - 3 trials, "CFF Care Center & Pediatric Program Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh" - 2 trials