Trialstreamer: A living, automatically updated database of clinical trial reports

• Published in: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA Vol. 27; no. 12; pp. 1903 - 1912
• Main Authors: Marshall, Iain J, Nye, Benjamin, Kuiper, Joël, Noel-Storr, Anna, Marshall, Rachel, Maclean, Rory, Soboczenski, Frank, Nenkova, Ani, Thomas, James, Wallace, Byron C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 09.12.2020
• Subjects: Bias; Data Curation; Data Management; Databases, Factual; Evidence-Based Medicine; Humans; Medical Subject Headings; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Research and Applications; randomized controlled trials; research synthesis; automatic database curation; evidence based medicine

Abstract Objective Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard method for evaluating whether a treatment works in health care but can be difficult to find and make use of. We describe the development and evaluation of a system to automatically find and categorize all new RCT reports. M...