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Wilfred Hughes

May 6, 2018 at 18:04

On making metrics actionable: Medical trials in the US are required to publish their results, but many trials do not currently obey this requirement. Rather than only measuring it, a live tool encourages researchers to publish and see the results! https://ebmdatalab.net/our-fdaaa-trialstracker-is-already-helping-to-get-new-trials-reported/

Our FDAAA TrialsTracker is already helping to get new trials reported! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Our FDAAA TrialsTracker is already helping to get new trials reported! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

When we launched our FDAAA TrialsTracker we wanted to produce a tool that would improve clinical trial reporting, rather than another repetitive academic journal paper that simply documents the extent of the problem. This reflects our ethos in the Bennett Institute: clinicians, academics and software engineers, working together to produce tools, as well as papers. Two weeks after launch we have had extensive media coverage, and a lot of great user feedback. Here are two emails we’ve had from users who are employed to improve clinical trial reporting in major US institutions.