Methods to extract and transform clinical trial data
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What is it?
trialtracker is a Python package that provides methods to easily extract, transform, and download clinical trial data. It aims to create standardized data infrastructure for clinical trial digitalization, focusing on structured representation of clinical trial protocols.
Main Features
Here are some of the things trialtracker allows you to do:
- Download pre-curated clinical trial and clinical trial eligibility criteria datasets
- Easily query data from clinicaltrials.gov
- Apply state-of-the-art natural language processing methods to extract useful information from raw clinicaltrials.gov data
- Data visualizations and analysis of clinical trial data
The current version of the package is primarily focused on cancer trials, which are an important area for clinical development. Improved data infrastructure is especially helpful in this area given the complexity of the disease and treatments.
Impact
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. The way we test and approve new treatments is through clinical trials. But 97% of cancer trials
fail,
driven by inability to
recruit
enough patients.
And yet many patients are routinely
excluded
from trials, including minority groups who are most affected by the disease.
The key to solving these problems is in changing how we design trials, recruit patients, and report on results. Regulatory requirements for clinical trial registration became required in 2017, making semi-structured trial protocol data available on clinicaltrials.gov. Today, this is not being systematically used in trial design, patient recruitment, or reporting decisions in Oncology. This project aims to unlock the value of clinical trial data to help accelerate cancer research and improve the lives of cancer patients.
Installation
trialtracker can be installed from PyPi
pip install trialtracker
Usage
trialtracker is made to be very simple to use. The main methods are:
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</code></pre> </li> </ul> <p>trialtracker.list_datasets()</p> <pre lang="to"><code> Here is a quick example: ```sh from trialtracker import list_datasets, load_dataset
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