There are about 21062 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Italy. 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.
SPOCS is an international, multicenter, prospective observational cohort study with bi-annual study visits over a 3-year follow-up designed to systematically describe the comprehensive SLE patient-journey regarding clinical features, disease progression and treatment patterns, SLE outcomes, health status assessments (PROs), and health care resource utilization (HCRU) in a general population of moderate-to-severe SLE patients.
Prospective, global, multicenter study to assess cup position in THA. After written informed consent has been obtained, study evaluations will be collected from the pre-op clinic visit, the operative visit (including discharge), and 6 and 12 weeks postoperatively.
To provide treatment guidelines for patients with long bone metastatic disease based on observational study and to propose an algorithm to guide orthopedic surgeons in decision-making for these patient.
This is a three period study design consisting of a 6-month, randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled treatment (period 1) followed by a 6-month, open-label treatment (period 2) and a follow-up treatment period (period 3). Primary safety objective of the study is to assess the safety and tolerability of REGN2477 in male and female patients with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP). Primary efficacy objective of the study is to assess the effect of REGN2477 versus placebo on the change from baseline in heterotopic ossification (HO) in patients with FOP, as determined by 18-NaF uptake in HO lesions by positron emission tomography (PET) and in total volume of HO lesions by computed tomography (CT). Key Secondary objectives are: - To compare the effect of REGN2477 versus placebo on pain due to FOP, as measured by the area under the curve (AUC) for pain based on daily pain numeric rating scale (NRS) scores - To assess the effect of REGN2477 versus placebo on the change from baseline in HO, as determined by the number of new HO lesions identified by 18F-NaF PET or by CT - To assess the effect of REGN2477 versus placebo on the change from baseline in 18F-NaF standardized uptake value maximum (SUVmax) of individual active HO site(s) by PET - To assess the effect of REGN2477, between week 28 and week 56, on the number, activity, and volume of HO lesions identified by 18F-NaF PET or by CT in patients who switch from placebo to REGN2477 at week 28 versus the same patients between baseline and week 28 - To assess the effect of REGN2477 versus placebo on the change from baseline in biochemical markers of bone formation - To characterize the concentrations of total activin A at baseline and over time following the first dose of study drug - To characterize the concentration-time profile (pharmacokinetics [PK]) of REGN2477 in patients with FOP - To assess the immunogenicity of REGN2477
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and the main cause of cardioembolic stroke. Oral Anticoagulation (OAC) has been shown to significantly prevent AF-related thromboembolism, however, despite convincing evidences and current guidelines recommendations, OAC tends to be underused in clinical practice especially in the oldest. Education and training to appropriately select people suitable for OAC for stroke prevention could be pivotal in the decision making process. According to the study project, physicians working in Internal Medicine and Geriatric wards, where are mainly admitted elderly people with AF, will undergo to a program of e-learning through computer-based simulation method reproducing clinical scenarios of patients aged 65 years or older, with known or newly diagnosed AF, admitted to hospital for any medical reason and requesting that a decision about long-term antithrombotic therapy is taken. Primary objective of the study is to investigate whether such educational intervention will improve the appropriate use and prescription rate of OAC in hospitalised elderly patients with AF, multimorbidity and polypharmacy, in comparison to the usual practice. The study will be a cluster randomised controlled trial involving a network of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics wards. Thirty-two wards will be recruited based on voluntary participation and randomised to receive an educational intervention through computer-based simulation, (N=16) or to continue with the usual practice (N=16). Subjects receiving the intervention will be all the staff physicians of the wards randomised in the intervention arm. The impact of the intervention compared with the usual practice will be evaluated in patients aged 65 years or older admitted to the participating centres with a known diagnosis of AF or newly diagnosed with AF during the hospitalisation.
The primary objective of this study is to investigate whether an Educational Supported Program (ESP), including tight control procedures implemented through patient home care, has positive impact in terms of better adherence to the therapy with abatacept SC at 12 months after treatment start (1st injection). In the scope of this objective the adherence is measured by the Medication Adherence Questionnaire (MAQ).
This study will evaluate the effect of ALKS 3831 compared to olanzapine on body weight in young adults with schizophrenia, schizophreniform, or bipolar I disorder who are early in their illness
A cardiac safety study of an investigational drug to see how it affects the heart in people with Parkinson's Disease Complicated by Motor Fluctuations ("OFF" Episodes)
Spasticity is frequently experienced by people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), negatively impacting on patient's motor functional outcome, including walking. Currently, none of the available MS disease-modifying medications has been shown to stop or reverse gait disability. Recently the nabiximols has been tested for the treatment of spasticity and walking impairment in MS. Nabiximols (trade name Sativex®) is an oromucosal spray formulation containing 1:1 fixed ratio of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) derived from cloned Cannabis sativa L. plant. The main active substance, THC, acts as a partial agonist at human cannabinoid receptors (CB1 and CB2), and may modulate the effects of excitatory (glutamate-GLU-) and inhibitory (gamma-aminobutyric acid -GABA-) neurotransmitters, leading to muscle relaxation, which in turn is responsible for spasticity improvement. Cannabinoid receptors may modulate both excitatory and inhibitory transmission at central synapses, and have been heavily implicated, in animal models, in multiple forms of synaptic plasticity, such as long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD). Indeed, in a previous study implying transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) technique, it has been hypothesized that the activation of cannabinoid receptors by Sativex® could modulate the balance between LTP and LTD like plasticity by changing the state of cortical excitability. In a recently study it has been proposed that Sativex may modulate the cortical excitability changing the activity of inhibitory GABAergic cortico-cortical synapses. Aim of our study is to clarify the role of Sativex coupled to a robotic neurehabilitation training in MS patients in improving the motor outcome, by means of clinical, kinematic, beside some neurophysiological and measures.
Prospective, multi-centre, multi-national registry with a follow-up of 3 months, in five European countries and Canada (Toronto), with elective patients undergoing TF-TAVI (n=120) and isolated SAVR (n=120), respectively and a control group of 50 patients receiving medical treatment only. All patient groups will fill in three different questionnaires to assess quality of life in 5 different languages (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish). One of these will be a new questionnaire, the Toronto Aortic Stenosis QoL (Quality of Life) questionnaire (TASQ).