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<tr><td width="30">&nbsp;</td><td width="470"><font size="5"><strong>Access to <em>ClinicalTrials.gov</em> in the NLM Gateway</strong></font><br /></td><td width="30">&nbsp;</td></tr>
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ccess to <em>ClinicalTrials.gov</em> will be added to the NLM Gateway in the Consumer Health category.
<em>ClinicalTrials.gov</em>
provides patients, family members, and members of the public current information about clinical research studies.
It includes
thousands of trials sponsored primarily by NIH, other Federal agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry.
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A clinical trial is a research study to answer specific questions about vaccines, new therapies or new ways of
using known
treatments. Clinical trials (also called medical research and research studies) are used to determine whether
new drugs or
treatments are both safe and effective. Carefully conducted clinical trials are the fastest and safest way to
find treatments that work in people.
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The addition of <em>ClinicalTrials.gov</em> to the collections searched by the Gateway will benefit clinicians,
patients and
their families, researchers, librarians, and the public. With a single search, a user will retrieve information
about relevant clinical trials as well as journal citations, books, MedlinePlus<sup><font size=-2>&#174;</font></sup>,
and DIRLINE<sup><font size=-2>&#174;</font></sup> information about a topic. See the following search.
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Access the NLM Gateway either through the NLM home page or by typing the URL:
<a href="http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov">http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov</a>.
Enter skin cancer in the search query box of the Gateway as shown in <a href="#fig1">Figure 1</a>.
Note that phrases should be placed in double quotes.
Click on the "Search" button or use the "Enter" key to initiate the search.
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In the Consumer Health category, Gateway searches five collections: three MedlinePlus
collections; <em>ClinicalTrials.gov</em>; and
DIRLINE, a directory of health organizations. Click on the "Display Results" button next to Consumer Health.
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The results from MedlinePlus display first. Go to the pull down menu for Pick a Collection, select
<em>ClinicalTrials.gov</em>,
and click on the "Jump to Collection" button.
(See <a href="#fig3">Figure 3</a>.)
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The Results page then displays items from the clinical trials collection. (See <a href="#fig4">Figure 4</a>.)
Each item contains the title
of the clinical trial, the condition(s) being studied, the URL that links to the <em>ClinicalTrials.gov</em> Web page,
and the status of the trial.
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For information on a particular clinical trial, click on the URL. A new browser window opens with the
selected <em>ClinicalTrials.gov</em> page. (<a href="#fig5">Figure 5</a>)
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More information on the Gateway can be found through links available on the left sidebar of each page.
Additional information may be found from
the <a href="https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-site"><em>ClinicalTrials.gov</em></a>.
If you have questions or concerns that are not addressed by this article or Gateway documentation,
please click on the "Contact Us" button available at the bottom of each Gateway page to send a message.
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<strong>By Andrea Demsey</strong><br />
<strong>MEDLARS Management Section</strong><br />
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<strong>By Sonya Shooshan</strong><br />
<strong>Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications</strong><br />
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