My name is Pavan Cheruvu, and I'm one of the founders of
ClinicalTrialsWiki.org. Brice Gaudilliere and I are very excited to be starting this collaborative wiki project.
I'm currently a fourth-year student at Harvard Medical School, and Brice is in his final year of the M.D./Ph.D. program, also at Harvard. You can read our bios on the sidebar of this blog.
A health professional can turn to
www.clinicaltrials.gov for a rich database of clinical trial methodology and data, or to one of many online medical journals (e.g.,
NEJM,
JAMA) for editorial opionion on select clinical trials. However, there's no online resource that's a "one-stop shop" for clinical trial information and analysis.
Our idea for
ClinicalTrialsWiki.org is to combine a familiar wiki interface for posting information on clinical trials with a forum for discussion of the results.
We will invite users to post their original analysis and commentary and,
importantly, for each trial we will convene a panel of distinguished experts (statisticians, pharmacoepidemiologists, clinicians, FDA insiders, etc.) to contribute thier own interpretations and insights.
If you have any innovative ideas, thoughtful suggestions, or staunch criticisms as we launch this collaborative project, we'd love to hear from you in the comment box below, or by
email.
Next, I'm hoping to add a search bar that links to the wiki search page, and to begin customizing and populating the actual wiki. It'll require learning how to tweak the MediaWiki template.
