Stanford launches searchable clinical trials database online

Stanford launches searchable clinical trials database online

Information about the clinical trials at Stanford University and its affiliates is now available through a publicly accessible database. The database is available at clinicaltrials.stanford.edu and will contain all interventional studies conducted at Stanford. Trials entered into the new system will also be automatically uploaded to the National Institutes of Health's clinical trial database and published on departmental Web sites within the medical school and can be easily shared with collaborating institutions. Patients can search the database by condition or disease, investigator, department, or a free-text search. According to the university, about 1,000 clinical trials are going on at Stanford at any one time, with about 300 trials beginning and 300 trials ending each year.