There are about 28871 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Canada. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
Babies that get an infection after 3 days of age while in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is not related to their delivery but to the hospital environment. Preventing these infections results in shorter hospital stays for babies, less risk of long term health problems and less health care resources required to care for them. Hand washing alone doesn't remove all bacteria from the hands of healthcare workers, and studies have shown that infections in adults and children admitted to hospital decrease if health care providers use clean, non- sterile gloves when treating patients. The main focus of this study will be to find out if using gloves when caring for newborns in the NICU is better than washing hands alone. McMaster Children's Hospital and The Hospital for Sick Children will be the pilot sites to participate in a future larger study where some infants will be cared for using non-sterile gloves, and others will be cared for using the standard hand washing method.
The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of a single-dose of intravenous dexamethasone 8 mg on the duration of sensory and motor blockade following spinal anesthesia with isobaric bupivacaine. The hypothesis of the study is that intravenous dexamethasone will significantly prolong (by more than 20 minutes) the duration of spinal anesthesia.
BREAKOUT -International Breast Cancer Biomarker, Standard of Care and Real World Outcomes Study BREAKOUT is a prospective cross-sectional cohort study of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative metastatic breast cancer patients who have started 1st line systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy. The study will estimate the prevalence of germline breast cancer susceptibility gene in an otherwise unselected population, describe the treatments administered and estimate the associated clinical outcomes of overall survival and progression-free survival amongst mutation carriers within the context of a low poly ADP ribose polymerase inhibitor treatment setting. Other exploratory analyses may be undertaken to describe somatic breast cancer susceptibility gene and other homologous recombination repair gene mutations.
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of filgotinib as compared to placebo in establishing combined fistula response at Week 24. Participants will have the option to enter a separate Long-Term Extension (LTE) study (GS-US-419-3896; NCT02914600) if they meet eligibility requirements.
Some patients who have multiple long-term health conditions have significant challenges accessing needed services despite available primary care and social services resources. Patient navigation programs may help those with complex health conditions improve their care and outcomes and if delivered by community health navigators (CHNs) who have close community ties, these programs have the potential to reduce barriers to care and increase access to coordinated, person-centred care. The ENCOMPASS program aims to improve the care and health outcomes for high-risk patients by linking patients with chronic disease with a CHN to help them navigate the health system, facilitate communication between patients and providers, improve patients' understanding of their conditions and treatment plans, and support patients in their self-management. In Canada, patient navigation programs have not been well studied or broadly implemented in patients with chronic disease, making a comprehensive evaluation of ENCOMPASS important. This program has great potential to improve care for patients with chronic diseases in primary care.
Dose-response relationship study of S42909 on leg ulcer healing after oral repeated administration in patients with active venous leg ulcer.
This pilot randomized control trial will examine the role of choral singing on psychosocial stress and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD). The hypothesis is that choral singing will improve psychosocial stress in comparison to the control group and this may have an impact on rates of hospitalization, death, myocardial infarction and stroke in these patients.
The overall goal of this study is to investigate the effects of a daily dietary supplement of brown seaweed (2 capsules of InSea2®) on body weight, glycemic control and insulin secretion in overweight prediabetic men and women in association with a moderate weight loss intervention.
The main objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of Ivermectin 1% topical cream associated with Doxycycline 40 mg Modified release (MR) capsules versus Ivermectin 1% topical cream associated with Placebo in the treatment of severe Rosacea.
To learn in a general Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillators (CRT-D) population, which optimization techniques are used and how effective they are. It will compare 12-month response rates among different optimization methods and characterize which selected subject subgroups achieve better response than others. A subset of SMART Registry subjects will contribute to the NG4 Post Market Clinical Follow Up (PMCF) Cohort whose objective is collecting data on the NG4 CRT-D features and device usage in a real world setting and monitor long term safety associated with these devices to support CE Mark.