There are about 21071 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Spain. 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.
The use of probiotics is a widespread clinical practice to improve the composition of the microbiota in healthy and pathological patients. However, in recent years, inactivated microorganisms have begun to be used that can exert a certain anti-inflammatory effect at the intestinal level. Among them, Bifidobacterium longum (CECT 7347) has been used in various clinical trials with promising results. It has immunoregulatory properties and an excellent ability to attenuate the activity of epithelial cells at the intestinal level. However, it is necessary to carry out clinical trials to verify its effects, preferably in healthy patients who show certain gastrointestinal discomfort. For this reason, a parallel, randomized, double-blind, controlled pilot clinical trial with 2 study arms has been proposed to assess the effect of habitual consumption of B. longum CECT 7347 on mild-moderate functional digestive disorders in a group of healthy people.
Comparing clinical and radiological results of patients after prosthetic surgery conventionally with no robotic assistance and ROSA® Knee prosthetic surgery robotic assistance.
This is a Phase 1b, open-label, multi-center, dose-escalation and dose expansion study designed to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics (PK), and preliminary antitumor activity of furmonertinib in patients with advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with activating, including uncommon, Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) or Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2) mutations. Patients will be enrolled into one of 2 stages: Stage 1 (Dose Escalation and Backfill Cohorts) and Stage 2 (Dose Expansion).
Partial nephrectomy (PN) is the standard treatment for localized renal masses and should be preferred in clinical T1 (<7 cm tumor diameter) renal tumors over radical nephrectomy (RN) whenever technically feasible. Nonetheless, indications, approaches, techniques for PN, and correct reporting of outcomes, are still a matter of great debate within the urology community. Concurrently, case-report series suggested that alternative strategies for the treatment of localized renal tumors (ablation techniques (AT), watchful waiting (WW), active surveillance (AS)) could be feasible with acceptable oncologic outcomes in particular settings of patients with localized renal tumors. In this complex clinical scenario, the role surgeon-related and environmental factors (such as surgical experience, hospital resources, countries' social background and performance of health system) are important to address the best personalized approach in patients with renal tumors. In the light of current evidence, many unsolved questions still remain and many unmet needs must be addressed. In particular, 1) the risk-benefit trade-offs between PN and RN for anatomically complex renal localized tumors; 2) the definition of evidence-based strategies to tailor the management strategy (AT vs WW vs AS vs surgery) in different subset of patients with particular clinical conditions (i.e. old, frail, comorbid patients); and 3) the definition of evidence-based recommendations to adapt surgical approach (open vs laparoscopic vs robotic) and resection techniques to different patient-, tumor-, and surgeon-specific characteristics. To meet the challenges, to overcome the limitations of current kidney cancer literature (such as the retrospective study design, potential risk of biases, and heterogeneous follow-up of most series), and to provide high-quality evidence for future development of effective clinical practice Guidelines, we designed the international REgistry of COnservative or Radical treatment of localized kiDney tumors (i-RECORD) Project. The expected impact of the i-RECORD project is to provide robust evidence on the leading clinical and environmental factors driving selection of the management strategy in patients with kidney cancer, and the differential impact of different management strategies (including AS, WW, AT, PN and RN) on functional, perioperative and oncological outcomes, as well as quality of life assessment, at a mid-long term follow-up (5-10 years).
Critically ill COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory failure, in the intensive care unit (ICU), often feature high respiratory drive, determining large inspiratory efforts resulting in high pressures and global and regional over-distention, leading to lung injury. SARS-CoV-2 neurotropic-penetration in control centers in medulla oblongata might contribute to dysregulation and to excessively high respiratory drive observed in these patients. These pathophysiological conditions may often lead to the development of patient-ventilator asynchronies in aptients under mechanical ventilation, again leading to high tidal volumes and increased lung injury. These phenomena can contribute to prolonged duration of mechanical ventilation and ICU length of stay, but also can result in long term adverse outcomes like emotional/psychological and cognitive sequelae. All them compromising the quality of life of critically ill survivors after ICU discharge. The investigators will conduct a multicenter study in adult critically ill COVID-19 patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure, aiming to: 1) characterize incidence and clustering of high respiratory drive by developing algorithms, 2) apply artificial intelligence in respiratory signals to identify potentially harmful patient-ventilator interactions, 3) characterize cognitive and emotional sequelae in critically ill COVID-19 survivors after ICU discharge and 4) identify sets of genes and transcriptomic signatures whose quantified expression predisposed to asynchronies and cognitive impairment in critically ill COVID-19 patients.
A Chatbot oriented to virtually assist patients in a physiotherapy treatment has been designed and developed to interact with patients with musculoskeletal disorders in need for domiciliary rehabilitation. The tool has been designed to promote adherence to rehabilitation, what in turn may have an impact on clinical outcome. A randomized clinical trial involving patients undergoing total knee replacement has bee designed to determine the applicability of the proposal. The participants will be assigned into exerimental group (intervention with the software tool) or control group (standard care).
This study aims to evaluate the impact of the frequency of assessments on the variability over time, reliability, and compliance for the Parkinson's disease (PD) diary in patients with PD in whom medications do not provide adequate control of symptoms.
A study on two different methods of invitation to participate to the cervical cancer screening programme will be conducted within a demonstration project to switch from cytology-based screening to HPV-based screening using self-sampling delivered through the network of pharmacy offices among regular screening attendants in the Barcelona Metropolitana Sud Area, in Catalonia. At the moment, eligible women are invited to participate to cervical cancer screening via a telephone call invitation explaining the new self-sampling method. Invitation via SMS containing a link to a webpage with information on most frequent questions might be an adequate alternative method that would save costs and workload on human resources. The aim of this study is to assess the impact on cervical cancer screening participation of an invitation method based on text messaging (SMS). The invitation method will be evaluated through an interventional trial, in which we will compare the invitation to cervical cancer screening using SMS versus a telephone call invitation explaining the new self-sampling method.
This is a phase 1b study to assess the safety and tolerability of tarlatamab in combination with programmed death ligand (PD-L1) inhibition with and without chemotherapy.
The purpose of this study is to compare/harmonize cross-sectional and longitudinal tau tangle measurements obtained with the tau PET radiopharmaceuticals Flortaucipir and MK-6240 to elucidate the advantages and caveats of their use in clinical trials/practice and provide parameters to integrate their estimates.