StudyFinder is a flexible and configurable application to pull studies from clinicaltrials.gov and augment the data from alternate datasources such as a clinical trials management system.
This allows administrators to override the accepts healthy volunteers?
field for a trial. Occasionally, studies that will meet their healthy
volunteer enrollment goals and will want to continue recruiting
non-healthy participants without modifying the entry in clinicaltrials.gov.
I don't love that this solution introduces two new database columns and
changes the surface area of the importer. However based on recent
conversations, I expect more of these kinds of overrides to be
introduced. When we get some more to implement I'd like to explore
building a more robust but simple override mechanism that plays nicely
with Elasticsearch.
This allows administrators to override the
accepts healthy volunteers?field for a trial. Occasionally, studies that will meet their healthy volunteer enrollment goals and will want to continue recruiting non-healthy participants without modifying the entry in clinicaltrials.gov.I don't love that this solution introduces two new database columns and changes the surface area of the importer. However based on recent conversations, I expect more of these kinds of overrides to be introduced. When we get some more to implement I'd like to explore building a more robust but simple override mechanism that plays nicely with Elasticsearch.