https://github.com/datasets/clinical-trials-us
Official US clinical trial outcomes from the FDA
https://github.com/datasets/clinical-trials-us
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Official US clinical trial outcomes from the FDA
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/datasets/clinical-trials-us
- Owner: datasets
- Created: 2013-02-06T16:21:53.000Z (over 13 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-10-25T14:25:13.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-12T02:37:04.206Z (about 1 year ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 11.7 KB
- Stars: 32
- Watchers: 13
- Forks: 9
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
Data and processing scripts for clinical trials information in
, a registry and results database of publicly and
privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the
world.
Deposit in this database [has been required][required] since September 2007 for
all "applicable clinical trials" as per [FDAAA 801][].
[required]: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/manage-recs/fdaaa#WhichTrialsMustBeRegistered
[FDAAA 801]: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-110publ85/pdf/PLAW-110publ85.pdf#page=82
## Getting the data
1. Go to
2. Search (no query) to get all results
3. Hit download and select all results
4. Wait while 542 Mb zip file downloads `search_results.zip`
5. unzip - you now have 2.3Gb of clinical trials xml
6. Use the scripts - see below
### Data Structure
It's XML. Here's the XSD: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/html/images/info/public.xsd.
Sample records:
* data/NCT00000102.xml (without results)
* data/NCT01101477.xml (with results)
### Data Stats
139848 XML files as of 2013-02-02.
As of Feb 1st 2013 only 8,044 trials included posted-results.
### Scripts
Node.js script in extract.js - still under development.