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RESEARCH STUDIES
TrialsCentral is an online resource
designed to improve access to clinical trials information,
which provide the foundation for evidence-based
healthcare. The TrialsCentral web site links to
hundreds of online databases of ongoing clinical
trials, primarily in the U.S. Because "positive" trial
findings are more likely to be published than "negative" findings,
the knowledge base about treatment effectiveness
may be biased. No comprehensive centralized database
of initiated clinical trials exists even though
clinical trials databases, generally small and overlapping
in content, are proliferating on the Internet. TrialsCentral
improves access to clinical trials information by creating a
centralized database of these information sources. Access to
TrialsCentral is free, no registration is required, and no records
are kept of visits to the site
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