OpenTrials: Towards a collaborative open database of all available information on all clinical trials

Trials

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Goldacre, Ben ^a,b   Gray, Jonathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FUNDING; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; NOTE; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PUBLISHING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); WEB BROWSER; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; COOPERATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; PATENT; WORKFLOW;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84962788942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-016-1290-8     Document Type: Note

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