The Trial Bank Project

The Trial Bank Project captures the design, execution and result information from randomized clinical trials (RCTs) directly into computer-understandable "trial banks," in order to enable more powerful knowledge management and automated discovery of clinical trial information, as well as more powerful decision support for trial quality assessment and evidence-based practice. We seek to capture trial information from any point during the life-cycle of a clinical trial, but primarily by changing the way clinical trials are published in the academic medical literature. We demonstrated proof of concept of "trial-bank publishing" in collaboration with the Annals of Internal Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. The Trial Bank Project also collaborates with the National Center for Biomedical Ontology and the Electronic Primary Care and Research Network. Details of the project are available here.

Principal Investigator Ida Sim, MD, PhD