Trials and Trial Groups

A Trial refers to a clinical trial. As defined in clinicaltrials.gov, clinical trials are research studies in which researchers assign participants to get one or more interventions to test what happens in people.

In CTIMS, a trial can be represented using the CTML format and saved in a CTML file (yaml or JSON format).

CTIMS defines a "Trialgroup" as a bunch of trials that are grouped together. They can be grouped based on the Principal Investigator (PI) or the Pharma company or the curator.

Example Trial Groups names:

“DrSmithgroup”

“ParamountPharmaGroup”

“JohnCuratorGroup”

The trial group names are used in CTIMS and keycloak for trial management as described in Security and User management.