Makes important medical information easily accessible to public
Allows mining of statistics for research purposes
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Establish online registry of clinical study data to expand public's access to and understanding of clinical trial process. The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Modernization Act of November 1997 required the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a database providing information on clinical trials for serious diseases or conditions.
In response, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) commissioned an online registry for clinical trials. A key challenge was to make complicated, technical medical information easily searchable and understandable to the public.
Develop a single, online registry to provide the following information to the public regarding clinical trials:
- Purpose statement for trial
- Eligibility criteria for participation
- Location of trial
- Contact information to enroll
Aquilent worked with NLM to create ClinicalTrials.gov, a Web site that provides consumers with information to more than 5,000 clinical studies. Three primary criteria for the site include:
- Confidentiality
- Ease of use
- Timely information
ClinicalTrials.gov utilizes a custom search engine, which incorporates the Unified Medical Language System to improve search-and-retrieval.
