TrialsViewer is an interactive visualization tool to explore clinical trial data - built for my capstone project at Ada Developers Academy.
React/Redux, D3, & Victory.
Clinical trials are a necessary and important tool used to test whether new drugs and procedures are safe and effective. Since 2007, new trials have been required to register their intent and methods with the FDA, but this data has historically been difficult to access. The OpenTrials project is trying to change that by making registered trial data from around the world easily available to the public.
TrialsViewer is an independently created tool to explore the data available through the OpenTrials API*. The goal is to create a summary that allows you to compare drugs or procedures for a given condition by highlighting two components:
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Gender: Drugs regularly get approved without being tested on women, an "oversight" that can have life changing consequences. It has been estimated that 8 out of 10 drugs pulled from the market by the FDA posed more of a threat for women.
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Publication Rates: Trials with negative results are twice as likely to remain unreported as those with positive results, leading to a misrepresentation of treatment efficacy.
* IMPORTANT NOTE: The OpenTrialsFDA API is only in its beta release, thus clinical trial data are currently incomplete on the 'Search' and 'Compare' pages. Check back or follow @OpenTrials for updates!