ctrdata (Q60277)

A system for querying, retrieving and analyzing protocol- and results-related information on clinical trials from four public registers, the 'European Union Clinical Trials Register' ('EUCTR', <https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/>), 'ClinicalTrials.gov' (<https://clinicaltrials.gov/> and also translating queries the retired classic interface), the 'ISRCTN' (<https://www.isrctn.com/>) and the 'European Union Clinical Trials Information System' ('CTIS', <https://euclinicaltrials.eu/>). Trial information is downloaded, converted and stored as JSON in a database ('PostgreSQL', 'SQLite', 'DuckDB', 'MongoDB' or 'MariaDB'; via package 'nodbi'). Protocols, statistical analysis plans, informed consent sheets and other documents in registers associated with trials can also be downloaded. Other functions implement trial analysis concepts canonically across registers, identify deduplicated records across registers, easily find and extract variables (fields) of interest even from complex nested data as used by registers, merge variables and update queries. The package can be used for monitoring, meta- and trend-analysis of the design and conduct as well as of the results of clinical trials across registers. See overview in Herold, R. (2025) <doi:10.1017/rsm.2025.10061>.