[HTML][HTML] Factors associated with clinical trials that fail and opportunities for improving the likelihood of success: a review

DB Fogel - Contemporary clinical trials communications, 2018 - Elsevier
Clinical trials are time consuming, expensive, and often burdensome on patients. Clinical
trials can fail for many reasons. This survey reviews many of these reasons and offers …

Interventions to improve recruitment and retention in clinical trials: a survey and workshop to assess current practice and future priorities

P Bower, V Brueton, C Gamble, S Treweek, CT Smith… - Trials, 2014 - Springer
Background Despite significant investment in infrastructure many trials continue to face
challenges in recruitment and retention. We argue that insufficient focus has been placed on …

Dynamic consent: a potential solution to some of the challenges of modern biomedical research

I Budin-Ljøsne, HJA Teare, J Kaye, S Beck… - BMC medical …, 2017 - Springer
Background Innovations in technology have contributed to rapid changes in the way that
modern biomedical research is carried out. Researchers are increasingly required to …

Prevalence, characteristics, and publication of discontinued randomized trials

B Kasenda, E Von Elm, J You, A Blümle, Y Tomonaga… - Jama, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The discontinuation of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) raises ethical concerns
and often wastes scarce research resources. The epidemiology of discontinued RCTs …

Optimising recruitment and informed consent in randomised controlled trials: the development and implementation of the Quintet Recruitment Intervention (QRI)

JL Donovan, L Rooshenas, M Jepson, D Elliott, J Wade… - Trials, 2016 - Springer
Background Pragmatic randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are considered essential to
determine effective interventions for routine clinical practice, but many fail to recruit …

Increasing value and reducing waste in biomedical research regulation and management

RAS Salman, E Beller, J Kagan, E Hemminki… - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
After identification of an important research question and selection of an appropriate study
design, waste can arise from the regulation, governance, and management of biomedical …

Community engagement and ethical global health research

B Adhikari, C Pell, PY Cheah - Global Bioethics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Community engagement is increasingly recognized as a critical element of medical
research, recommended by ethicists, required by research funders and advocated in ethics …

The ROAM/EORTC-1308 trial: radiation versus observation following surgical resection of atypical meningioma: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

MD Jenkinson, M Javadpour, BJ Haylock, B Young… - Trials, 2015 - Springer
Background Atypical meningiomas are an intermediate grade brain tumour with a
recurrence rate of 39–58%. It is not known whether early adjuvant radiotherapy reduces the …

Factors that impact on recruitment to randomised trials in health care: a qualitative evidence synthesis

C Houghton, M Dowling, P Meskell… - Cochrane Database …, 2020 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Randomised trials (also referred to as 'randomised controlled trials' or 'trials')
are the optimal way to minimise bias in evaluating the effects of competing treatments …

Prion-specific and surrogate CSF biomarkers in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: diagnostic accuracy in relation to molecular subtypes and analysis of neuropathological …

F Lattanzio, S Abu-Rumeileh, A Franceschini… - Acta …, 2017 - Springer
The differential diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) from other, sometimes
treatable, neurological disorders is challenging, owing to the wide phenotypic heterogeneity …