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.
This non-intervention study will identify the biomarker profiles in hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) and atopic dermatitis (AD) (as a comparator) that would have the most utility in interventional studies evaluating efficacy during therapeutic intervention. Study data will also be used to correlate cellular/molecular changes in blood (cells and serum), and tissue, with clinical/histopathological phenotypes.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and feasibility of the Exablate Model 4000 Type 2 system when used as a tool to open the blood-brain-barrier (BBB) in subjects with recurrent glioblastoma (rGBM) undergoing carboplatin monotherapy.
Stroke impacts nearly 400,000 Canadians annually. Three quarters of stroke survivors will live with minor to severe impairments or disabilities; which require rehabilitation care. Strong evidence supports beginning rehabilitation as soon as the patient's medical status has stabilized and continuing following discharge from acute care. Access to optimal services is hampered, however, by travel distances to access rehabilitation, the lack of opportunities for structured and formal interprofessional communication among service providers, and failures to engage the patient and family members in a structured decision making process. Moreover, adherence to rehabilitation treatments has been shown to be suboptimal. Many patients refuse their outpatient rehabilitation treatments outright or decrease the duration and/or frequency of their treatments over time. The aim of this proposed mixed methods pragmatic clinical trial is to evaluate an intervention that provides patients who have experienced stroke the opportunity to return home safely after their acute hospital stay, to encourage patient (and family) engagement in their rehabilitation care, and to overcome challenges of access to patient-centered interprofessional rehabilitation care. The proposed intervention will entail 220 patients (and family) to receive rehabilitation care through remote, live treatment sessions with an interdisciplinary group of clinicians (called telerehabilitation) versus standard of care (n = 110 patients). Five rehabilitation teams will be trained to develop rehabilitation treatment plans that engage the patient and family, while taking advantage of a telerehabilitation platform to engage the patient/family. Grounded in findings gathered through a Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) funded pilot study, the primary study objective is to evaluate process, clinical outcomes and costs of telerehabilitation in comparison with usual care. Through qualitative interviews with patients and family as well as clinicians, a second objective of this pragmatic, controlled trial is to explore and describe contextual factors (both personal and environmental) that will help the delivery of care, and improve patient's outcomes while fully using technology to deliver stroke rehabilitation care. This study represents a unique, highly relevant opportunity to minimize both knowledge and practice gaps, while producing robust, indepth data on the factors related to the effectiveness of telerehabilitation.
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is the most common opportunistic infection in lung transplantation leading to direct and indirect effects that can result in life threatening complications. The risk of CMV infection is highest when the recipient of the transplant has never been in contact with CMV (negative immunity) and the donor had previous contact with CMV (positive immunity). This is called CMV mismatch. For these lung transplant patients 6 to 12 months of prophylaxis with an antiviral called Valganciclovir is recommended. This antiviral can cause side effects like bone marrow toxicity and decrease in immune cells which can result in temporarily having to stop the treatment. Starting and stopping the prophylaxis may result in the CMV becoming resistant to the medication. While taking the prophylaxis it is possible to have a breakthrough of the CMV, this is often due to the development of resistance to the antiviral. The purpose of this study is to learn more about the rate of CMV breakthrough while on prophylaxis after lung transplantation in patients who are CMV mismatch. The investigators will also look at the rates of negative side effects caused by antiviral prophylaxis in this population.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a treatment regimen of JNJ-73763989 + pegylated interferon alpha-2a (PegIFN-alpha-2a) + nucleos(t)ide analog (NA).
This study aims to demonstrate the superiority in clinical performances of a dual artery compression device (Terry-2 band) compared to a standard radial artery-only hemostasis device (HemoSTOP).
This study evaluates the efficacy of Real-World Strategy Training (RWST) compared to a psycho-education workshop for improving everyday life performance in older adults with subjective cognitive decline (SCD). Participants will be randomly assigned to receive one of these approaches. Additionally, this study will provide insight into the benefits of the program while people are not able to meet in person during a pandemic.
Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is a live attenuated vaccine administered for prevention of tuberculosis. Recently, several groups have hypothesized that BCG may "train" the immune system to respond to a variety of unrelated infections, including viruses and in particular the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. Trials are currently being conducted in Australia, Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom to evaluate its effectiveness. Front line workers includes members of municipal and provincial police services, emergency medical personnel, firefighters, public transport employees, health service workers and food manufacturing employees. They are at high risk of infection from COVID-19, with potentially high infection rate. The investigators propose an interventional trial to evaluate the effectiveness of BCG vaccination to prevent COVID-19 infection and reduce its severity in front-line employees in Ontario.
This is a single-arm, open-label, multicenter, Phase 1 study evaluating the safety and efficacy of CTX130 in subjects with relapsed or refractory renal cell carcinoma.
Residents in homeless shelters will be randomized to 4 different COVID-19 screening strategies with the primary outcome being COVID-19 detection rate.