Director’s Note
This issue of caBIG™ Links focuses on how caBIG™ tools, infrastructure, and standards can improve clinical trials management, especially across multi-center trials. One of the major benefits of the clinical trials software being developed by caBIG™ is that it allows an institution to easily adapt its existing software to work in conjunction with caBIG™ standards and common data elements. Read More
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C3PR: Enabling Cross-Institutional Clinical Trials Management
caBIG™ tool streamlines maintenance and use of patient information
Cancer clinical trials have traditionally been conducted in isolation by local cancer centers because a centralized, interoperable patient registration and placement system—as well as common data elements—did not exist. This lack of coordination and standardization makes creating large datasets across institutions difficult, and researchers have often found it challenging to glean statistically significant results from smaller datasets.
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Improving Efficiency of Clinical Trials with C3PR
caBIG™ in action at Georgetown University Medical Center’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
A key feature of effective and efficient research is minimizing errors due to manual data entry while maximizing cross-study correlations. In many clinical trials, however, collection of a patient’s identification information is often repeated at several points in the trial; for example, during the initial entry into the clinical trial as well as during visits to different hospital departments.
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