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New approach to improving clinical trial enrollment and diversity

Medical Xpress

Before new therapies can reach patients, they must be tested in clinical trials in representative populations to show that they work and are safe. Failure to enroll enough participants in trials can delay the arrival of new therapies in the clinic and inflate their eventual price tags.

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Grand Rounds February 9, 2024: Pragmatic Recruitment of Underrepresented Groups – Experience From the Diuretic Comparison Project (Cynthia Hau, MPH)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

It had a pragmatic recruitment model with an embedded design, multicenter study without local study investigators and management teams, and broad recruitment that included patients from all 50 states and Puerto Rico. At the time, more than 95% of VA patients received hydrochlorothiazide for thiazide-type diuretic.

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Grand Rounds January 20, 2023: Collaborative Pragmatic Trials in Action: EVOLVE-MI (Mikhail Kosiborod, MD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Patient recruitment is through a network of sites in different geographic locations managed by a collaboration of AROs. EVOLVE-MI is enrolling 4,000 patients in 3 countries. So far EVOLVE-MI’s early experience in the trial has been that nearly every site enrolled a patient within days of activation.

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Grand Rounds November 18, 2022: The FIRST-ABC Pragmatic Trials of Non-Invasive Respiratory Support In Children (Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, MBBS, MD, FRCPCH, FFICM)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

acutely ill patients) and step-down, which is the extubation or post-extubation part of the care pathway. The FIRST-ABC trial adopted a pragmatic design with a heterogenous patient cohort where the indication to start NRS was based on physiological criteria, which allowed the results to be applicable to all situations where HFNC is started.

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Grand Rounds December 2, 2022: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mobile Health Intervention in Heart Failure and Diabetes: Lessons Learned (G. Michael Felker, MD, MHS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

This study asks how can we better facilitate health behaviors in patients with chronic diseases and can we leverage technology? that focused on patients with heart failure and diabetes, two rapidly growing conditions that are highly morbid. Patients did not get text messages about pill adherence.

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Grand Rounds July 22, 2022: ACTIV-6: 1-Year Later and Trial Results for Ivermectin-400 and Inhaled Fluticasone (Susanna Naggie, MD, MHS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

It is a decentralized, fully remote trial, and data are largely patient reported. ACTIV-6 is actively recruiting across 93 sites with 5,034 randomized. There were no differences observed in the relief of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 symptoms between patients taking Ivermectin-400 and the placebo. Learn more about ACTIV-6.

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Grand Rounds February 3, 2023: Pragmatic Trials For Children With Congenital Heart Disease – Insights From The NITRIC Trial (Luregn Schlapbach, PhD, FCICM)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The NITRIC Trial was a double blind, multicenter, randomized, parallel-group trial recruiting at 6 pediatric cardiac surgical centers in Australia, New Zealand, and The Netherlands. All patients could receive inhalation NO during/after surgery if considered indicated by the treatment team. All other surgical staff were blinded.

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