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Grand Rounds March 1, 2024: Effect of an Intensive Food-As-Medicine Program on Health and Health Care Use: Evidence from a Randomized Clinical Trial (Joseph Doyle, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Schell Professor of Management and Applied Economics MIT Sloan School of Management Slides Keywords Food-as-Medicine, Randomized Clinical Trial, Diabetes Key Points Diabetes is common and costly. Clinic staff included a dietitian, a nurse and a community health worker. 9% of the U.S.

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On Clinical Trials Day, CVS shares lessons learned from one year providing trial services

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In recent years the retail pharmacy chain has begun to delve more and more deeply into the healthcare sector – by constantly expanding the basic healthcare services offered at their instore Minute Clinics, and by buying into the health insurance insurance space with their $69 billion purchase of Aetna in 2017. Take us back to May 2020.

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CVS, Medable alliance aims to tackle diversity in clinical trials

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CVS Health has said it will beef up its clinical trials operations, improving its ability to recruit patients from a broad demographic spectrum, via an agreement with digital health company Medable. Pharmaceutical industry organisation PhRMA says that most delays to trials occur in the start-up phase.

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The Year Ahead in Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities for Clinical Trial Sites

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Views from ACRP Members Topics highlighted include diversity and inclusion, decentralized clinical trial (DCT) elements, workforce challenges, and a possible role for sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) in supporting outreach by sites based in diverse communities.

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Grand Rounds September 16, 2022: Using Nationwide Registries to Conduct Pragmatic Randomized Trials: The DANFLU Program (Tor Biering-Sørensen, MD, PhD, MPH)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Professor in Translational Cardiology and Pragmatic Randomized Trials. Head of Center for Translational Cardiology and Pragmatic Randomized Trials. DANFLU-1, Pragmatic Clinical Trials. The DECODE trial used registry data to identify patients with chronic kidney disease. For most trials it’s 2-4%.

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Why I Fight | A message from Gary Fishbein, MD, MPH

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Join us as we celebrate cancer research awareness month and clinical trials awareness month. Where I trained at the University of Maryland, there was literally a bridge that connected the research labs to the clinic. As I think back to my time in college, I was very interested in the rights of human subjects on research trials.

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Prioritizing a Positive Patient Experience

ACRP blog

“Decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) were critical in enabling clinical research activities during the pandemic,” notes Adam Samson, MS, PMP, CCRA, CCRC, CCDM, Head of Clinical Delivery Operations, Real-World Evidence Clinical Trials, at Walgreens.