Cross sectional analysis of clinical trials search results for cancer patients using a navigator-assisted clinical trials search using five different search engines

• Milica Paunic ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milica Paunic, Sanghyuk Rim, Caroline Hamm

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Temerty School of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Sanghyuk Rim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milica Paunic, Sanghyuk Rim, Caroline Hamm

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

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• Olla Hilal,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Renée Nassar,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Clinical Trials Navigator Program, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2124-3293

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• Zoe Driedger,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

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• Farwa Zaib,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

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• Kayla Touma,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Master of Science in Translational Health Science Program, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5461-3328

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• Mahmoud Hossami ,

  Roles Conceptualization

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Master of Science in Translational Health Science Program, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

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• Rhonda Abdel-Nabi ,

  Roles Conceptualization

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Master of Science in Translational Health Science Program, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

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• Roaa Hirmiz,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Clinical Trials Navigator Program, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

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• Caroline Hamm

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milica Paunic, Sanghyuk Rim, Caroline Hamm

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: caroline.hamm@wrh.on.ca

  Current address: Windsor Cancer Centre Foundation, 2220 Kildare Rd, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N8W 2X3

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1326-2088

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