Sentences with phrase «clinical study participation»

Swiss drug giant Novartis is partnering with California - based Science 37 in an effort to expand clinical study participation (while lowering the costs of such studies) through «virtual» trials.

Not exact matches

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

The Fertility Center of Las Vegas often recruits patients for participation in clinical fertility research studies.

Other strengths of the underpinning cohort study include high participation by midwifery units and trusts in England; the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias because of non-consent; and the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk.12 The economic evaluation was conducted according to nationally agreed design and reporting guidelines.15 26 Collection of primary unit cost data was thorough and accounted for regional differences in care patterns.

We urge the adoption of policies that ensure opportunities for people to participate in research studies and clinical trials without fear that the information generated by their participation will be inappropriately disclosed and adversely affect their health insurance status or that of their families, either as individuals or as members of a particular group.

«By helping us understand that lower levels of RNF125 confer resistance to BRAF inhibitors, we have a new strategy to stratify patients for currently approved therapy versus participation for human clinical trials to investigate whether targeting JAK1 will be more effective in patients whose tumors exhibit reduced RNF125,» said Keith T. Flaherty, M.D., associate professor, Harvard Medical School, and director of Developmental Therapeutics, Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and co-author of the study.

When it comes to clinical research, the participation of the people being treated — the patients — usually ends by the time the study is submitted to a journal.

Study participation was restricted to patients with either ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia who did not achieve a stable heart rhythm after at least one defibrillator shock and, therefore, represent the typical group of those who receive such medications for cardiac arrest in clinical practice.

These patients have traditionally been viewed as a vulnerable group and «protected» from participation in clinical studies.

At any time, you can ask your doctor or any of our health care professionals about clinical trial participation opportunities or you can view or sign up for studies that are currently recruiting participants at UMclinicaltrials.org.

Once enrolled in the clinical trial, you are responsible for keeping all scheduled appointments needed for study participation and reporting any possible side effects or toxicities to your study veterinarian in a timely manner.

Student participation with clinical cases for advanced study in selected services from the large animal medicine, surgery, theriogenology and field services of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

Chief Justice Carmody stressed the usefulness of «acquiring knowledge from active participation and observation as well as passive attendance; that is by doing as well as seeing and listening» and noted, in part, «The development of best practice methods of explaining how the law works is an ongoing challenge, but clinical legal study via simulation exercises and the like is growing in popularity.»

We would like to acknowledge the participation of the parents who took part in the study and the clinical interns who helped to conduct the program.

Another criticism leveled against manual - based treatments is that clinical situations rarely mirror the tightly controlled conditions of a clinical research study.1 Criteria for participation in psychotherapy research often require accurate and differential diagnosis, which can be time consuming and costly.

Criteria for participation in the study were a) meeting DSM criteria (DSM - IV: American Psychiatric Association, 1994) for unipolar depression using structured clinical interview SCID (German version: Wittchen et al., 1990), b) BDI > 11), c) an enduring romantic relationship (duration at least 1 year), d) sufficient cognitive abilities to complete self - report measures and e) agreement of the partner to participate on the study.

As part of a larger study, a total of 681 patients from 12 academic centers were recruited via clinical referrals and advertisements for participation in a randomized control study of treatment for chronic depression (Keller et al. 2000).

Nevertheless, the mentioned studies have limitations such as small sample size (8 — 10), reliance on retrospective memory, low participation rate and attrition (7, 11), oversimplification in CHD severity grading (7, 11), use of self - reports, lack of clinical assessment of parental mental health problems (8, 11), and lack of data on possible confounding factors (11).