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ReviewCurrent heart failure reports2017

Impact of Site Selection and Study Conduct on Outcomes in Global Clinical Trials.

Chaudhry M S Sarwar, Muthiah Vaduganathan, Javed Butler

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Review in Current heart failure reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Site readiness practices for clinical trials - considerations for CTSA hubs.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2023
    Article
  3. ePSICONUT: An e-Health Programme to Improve Emotional Health and Lifestyle in University Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Chaudhry M S SarwarCardiology Division, Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook University, T-16, Room 080 SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA.
Muthiah VaduganathanBrigham and Women's Hospital Heart and Vascular Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Javed ButlerCardiology Division, Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook University, T-16, Room 080 SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA. javed.butler@stonybrookmedicine.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThere are over 25 million patients living with heart failure globally. Overall, and especially post-discharge, clinical outcomes have remained poor in heart failure despite multiple trials, with both successes and failures over the last two decades. Matching therapies to the right patient population, identifying high-quality sites, and ensuring optimal trial design and execution represent important considerations in the development of novel therapeutics in this space. RECENT

findingsWhile clinical trials have undergone rapid globalization, this has come with regional variation in comorbidities, clinical parameters, and even clinical outcomes and treatment effects across international sites. These issues have now highlighted knowledge gaps about the conduct of trials, selection of study sites, and an unmet need to develop and identify "ideal" sites. There is a need for all stakeholders, including academia, investigators, healthcare organizations, patient advocacy groups, industry sponsors, research organizations, and regulatory authorities, to work as a multidisciplinary group to address these problems and develop practical solutions to improve trial conduct, efficiency, and execution. We review these trial-level issues using examples from contemporary studies to inform and optimize the design of future global clinical trials in heart failure.

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Global HealthClinical Trials as TopicHealth FacilitiesHeart FailureHumansInterdisciplinary CommunicationMulticenter Studies as TopicQuality of Health CareResearch DesignClinical trialsGeographic variationHeart failureOutcomesSite selectionStudy design

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