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ArticleJournal of market access & health policy2017

Role of preliminary registry data in development of a clinical trial for an innovative device: a small but integral piece of a health policy initiative.

Donald R Ricci, Joost de Vries, Raphael Blanc

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Article in Journal of market access & health policy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Medical Devices Special Access Program in Canada: A Scoping Study.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Donald R RicciDivision of Cardiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada; Evasc Medical Systems Corporation, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Joost de VriesDepartment of Neurosurgery, Radboud University Nijmegen , Nijmegen , Netherlands.
Raphael BlancAssistant Chief of Interventional Radiology, Ophthalmological Foundation A. de Rothschild , Paris , France.
Fondation de Rothschild · FRRadboud University Nijmegen · NLUniversity of British Columbia · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Establishing a national health policy at a macro level involves the integration of a series of health initiatives across a spectrum of activities, including clinical care. Evaluation of the safety and efficacy of a new medical device ultimately evolves to testing in humans. The pathway to a formal prospective clinical trial includes a stepwise appreciation of pre-clinical data and detailed analysis of data obtained from preliminary registries, where information about appropriate patient selection and use of the device is obtained. Evaluation of procedural and follow-up efficacy and safety data in a preliminary series of cases, chosen to simulate published data, allows the design and conduct of clinical trials that are required to verify preliminary observations, closing the loop on one aspect of modifying health policy decisions.

Indexed as

Clinical trialhealth policyintracranial bifurcation aneurysmmedical deviceregistry data

Identifiers

PMID28321285
PMCPMC5345587
OpenAlexW2593404984

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Registered trials

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