Connecting the public with clinical trial options: The ResearchMatch Trials Today tool. Issue 4 (27th November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pulley, Jill M.; Jerome, Rebecca N.; Bernard, Gordon R.; Olson, Erik J.; Tan, Jason; Wilkins, Consuelo H.; Harris, Paul A.
• Is Part Of: Journal of clinical and translational science. Volume 2:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 253
• Page End: 257
• Publication Date: 2018-11-27
• Subjects: Patient information needs, -- clinical trials, -- recruitment, -- trial enrollment, -- databases; Clinical medicine -- Research -- Periodicals; Medicine, Experimental -- Periodicals; Human experimentation in medicine -- Periodicals; 616.027
• DOI: 10.1017/cts.2018.327
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2059-8661

Abstract

Abstract : Potential participants seek information about clinical trials for many reasons, but the process can be challenging. We analyzed 101, 249 searches in ResearchMatch Trials Today, a free interface to recruiting trials from ClinicalTrials.gov. Searches from March 2015 to November 2016 included a broad range of conditions and healthy volunteer concepts, including 12, 649 unique topics. Trials Today data indicate that it is being used to identify trials on a variety of topics.