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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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Versanis’ bimagrumab, first-in-class obesity therapy, enters Phase IIb of development

Pharmaceutical Technology

On January 12, Versanis Bio announced that enrollment had begun for its Phase IIb trial, BELIEVE (NCT05616013), which aims to study bimagrumab’s (BYM-338) efficacy and safety in the US, among other locations. In addition to facilitating loss of fat, the Phase II trial also showed that a lean mass gain of 4.5% was observed in the study.

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Grand Rounds January 12, 2024: Design and Implementation of a Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Covid-19 Resources (Erin K. McCreary, PharmD, BCIDP)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

UPMC did not allow patients to receive experimental COVID-19 therapies outside of the context of a clinical trial and used the REMAP-CAP platform, a global pragmatic adaptive trial platform, in all clinic sites. Setting clear inclusion/exclusion criteria based on highest level clinical evidence is crucial.

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

Rethinking Clinical Trials

EVOLVE-MI is a pragmatic, effectiveness outcome trial of Evolocumab dosed within 10 days of a myocardial infarction (MI). Participants within 10 days of index MI will either receive Evolocumab (140mg Q2W) every two weeks plus routine clinical care or standard of care. EVOLVE-MI is enrolling 4,000 patients in 3 countries.

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Grand Rounds November 17, 2023: Personalized Patient Data and Behavioral Nudges to Improve Adherence to Chronic Cardiovascular Medications: Results from the Nudge Study (Michael Ho, MD, PhD; Sheana Bull, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Three healthcare delivery systems participated in the study: UC Health Clinics, Denver Health, and VA Eastern Colorado HCS Clinics. There were 4 weeks to return the opt-out form, and there was a text opt-out option once the program started. Patients could text back with clinical questions or questions about the study.

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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

Pragmatic Clinical Trials, Heart Failure, Diabetes. The TARGET-HF-DM is a pragmatic multicenter randomized controlled trial held at 6 sites in the U.S. The trial enrolled 187 patients, with 35% women, 47% African American, 10% Hispanic, age 59 years. This trial turned out to be more challenging than anticipated.

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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

Pragmatic Clinical Trials. In 2016, we published a pilot trial looking at high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) therapy compared to CPAP in pediatric critical care. The step-up trial started recruitment in August 2019, 1,449 children were eligible, 600 children were randomized, and 595 consented. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Speakers.

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