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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. The trial was for adults with HbA1c greater than 8.0,

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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.

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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%. Key Points.

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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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Key Items Auditors Look for When Reviewing an Investigator Site File

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Maintaining complete and compliant documentation while managing the complex processes and interactions of clinical trial conduct is complicated. Investigator Site Files The ISF contains essential documents permitting evaluation of a clinical trial’s conduct. Below are examples of key items auditors/inspectors look for during an audit.

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Survey of Site Staff Offers Best Tactics to Target for Improving Participant Diversity

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Clinical trial sites that offer their study volunteers travel-related reimbursement and services, translated documents and translator services, and adequate compensation can have the most impact in terms of achieving diverse enrollment of participants, according to a new survey by a quartet of clinical researchers.

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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. I think all of us in oncology, whether we’re in nursing, in pharmacy, or on the medical side, are very interested in bridging that gap between what’s happening in the lab and what can be brought to the patients.