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Predicting clinical trial publication success is crucial for disseminating findings. Incorporating textual features from trial descriptions significantly improves prediction accuracy, aiding research and regulatory decisions.

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Area of Science:

  • Clinical Informatics
  • Biomedical Data Science
  • Publication Science

Background:

  • Many registered clinical trials remain unpublished, hindering timely dissemination of results.
  • Understanding factors influencing publication is vital for study design, regulatory processes, and bias assessment.
  • Previous research primarily focused on aggregate-level publication trends, lacking predictive models for individual trials.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a predictive model for clinical trial publication status using both structured and unstructured data.
  • To investigate the impact of textual features, extracted using natural language processing, on prediction accuracy.
  • To create the largest dataset to date of registered clinical trials and their publication outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized metadata from ClinicalTrials.gov and MEDLINE for a dataset of 76,950 clinical trials.
  • Employed natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) models, including a domain-specific language model and a random forest classifier.
  • Incorporated both structured trial metadata and unstructured textual descriptions (e.g., eligibility criteria).

Main Results:

  • The study confirms known factors associated with higher publication rates.
  • Textual features consistently improved publication outcome prediction accuracy (F1-score 0.62-0.64) compared to structured data alone (F1-score 0.61).
  • Both advanced language models and basic word-based text representations yielded high utility, with no significant performance difference.

Conclusions:

  • Clinical trial publication is influenced by multiple factors, addressed by a combined predictive approach.
  • NLP-derived textual features enhance the accuracy of predicting clinical trial publication success.
  • This novel approach offers improved prediction capabilities for publication outcomes, previously unexplored.