RCT Tagger: Automated RCT tagger for identifying human randomized controlled clinical trial articles.

Aggregator: Clustering together RCT articles predicted to arise from the same underlying clinical trial.

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This search tool will help you identify human randomized control clinical trial articles (up to 25,000 most recent articles) retrieved by a PubMed query. Articles are only processed if they contain abstracts and if they are published in English (or have an abstract translated into English).

Examples of Permitted Queries

(colchicine AND liver) AND (fibrosis OR cirrhosis)
triptans NOT thiazolidinediones
"attention deficit hyperactivity disorder" OR ADHD
thiazolidinedi*
ADHD AND (Blacher OR Rijsdijk) [AU]

References

Cohen AM, Smalheiser NR, McDonagh MS, Yu C, Adams CE, Davis JM, Yu PS. (2015) Automated confidence ranked classification of randomized controlled trial articles: an aid to evidence-based medicine. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (2015) 22(3):707-17.
Shao, W, Adams CE, Cohen AM, Davis JM, McDonagh MS, Yu PS, Smalheiser NR. (2014) Aggregator: A machine learning approach to identifying MEDLINE articles that derive from the same underlying clinical trial. Methods 74:65-70.
Smalheiser NR, Holt AW. (2020) New improved Aggregator: predicting which clinical trial articles derive from the same registered clinical trial. JAMIA Open. 2020 Oct 28;3(3):338-341. doi: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooaa042.

RCT File Download

For any questions, problems or comments, or to download the full dataset, please contact Neil Smalheiser.

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Last modified: May 15, 2017

RCT Tagger: Automated RCT tagger for identifying human randomized controlled clinical trial articles.

Aggregator: Clustering together RCT articles predicted to arise from the same underlying clinical trial.

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