There are about 13332 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Netherlands. 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 purpose of this study is to characterize the safety and tolerability of IAG933 in patients with mesothelioma, NF2/LATS1/LATS2 mutated tumors and tumors with functional YAP/TAZ fusions and to identify the maximum tolerated dose and/or recommended dose.
Rationale A recent study into the patient perspective of patients with multiple chronic conditions in the Netherlands underlines the strain multimorbidity can put on people. Most patients would appreciate more coordination from and communication with their care providers. This call for better coordination of needs and preferences ties into the concept of Advance Care Planning (ACP). ACP is a structured process of communication in which patients and physicians discuss and, if applicable, document health preferences and goals of patients regarding their last phase in life. Most ACP studies have been performed amongst older, terminally ill patients with the main aim of establishing patients' preferences before they lose capacity. We want to investigate the potential of ACP to increase patient empowerment in a population of competent patients with multimorbidity, who are not necessarily in their last phase of life. The distribution of healthcare expenditure among the population requiring care is skewed. In the Netherlands the top-10% most cost incurring patients account for 68% of expenditure. Many of these patients receive unnecessary or ineffective care, with a recent study estimating preventable spending at 10%. High-Need High-Cost patients comprise a very heterogeneous group, yet one common denominator explaining high cost is the high prevalence of multiple chronic conditions. Both overtreatment and conflicting treatment are legitimate concerns within this population. As multimorbidity and frailty increase with age, the older patient with multimorbidity is especially at risk. Targeted care programmes have been developed under the assumption that better coordination will lead to a reduction in healthcare utilization. However, although care might be identified as preventable or inefficient from a medical point of view, this is not necessarily the case from a patient perspective. We are interested how patients experience such care and thereby if better coordination would indeed lead to a reduction in utilization. Because ACP supports patients in timely recognition and better expression of their needs and preferences, we hypothesize that care will address those needs and preferences more adequately, which will result in improved patient assessment of care. We further hypothesize that patient empowerment will enable better planning of care and decision making, which can result in less unwanted or preventable interventions. As a consequence healthcare utilization might decrease. However, another possibility is that rather than leading to a decrease, improved empowerment may lead to an increase in utilization because care which is deemed superfluous from a medical perspective might not be perceived as such by patients. Objective The primary objective of our pilot study is to assess the feasibility of a formal Randomized Controlled Trial. Our secondary pilot objectives are to collect data on patient experience of healthcare, patient engagement, cost-effectiveness, and other data that might inform the design of a full-scale RCT. Study design Randomized pilot study Study population Patients over 65 years of age with polypharmacy, multimorbidity and multiple hospitalizations and/or ER admissions in the past year Intervention One of the most well-researched ACP programmes is the Respecting Choices Programme. In this programme, a trained facilitator encourages patients to reflect on their goals, values and beliefs, to discuss and document their future choices, and to appoint a surrogate decision maker. The programme was translated to the Dutch context in previous studies in the nursing home setting and oncology care. Patients randomized to receive ACP will have two meetings with a trained facilitator within two months. Main study parameters/endpoints Primary: trial-feasibility is defined as the successful inclusion of 50 patients in total, timely administration of the intervention in 25 patients, adherence to follow-up procedures and identification of problems or barriers during recruitment, inclusion, intervention administration and follow-up. Secondary: main outcome for cost-effectiveness is total duration and number of hospital admissions, as a proxy for both costs and effects (iMCQ). In order to inform a future cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), data on health-related quality of life (EQ5D-5L) will also be collected. Our outcomes for patient assessment of care and patient empowerment are the PACIC questionnaire, the ACP Engagement Survey and the appointment of a surrogate decision maker and/or the documentation of advance directives.
PQ-110-005 (BRIGHTEN) is an open-label, dose escalation and double-masked, randomized, controlled study evaluating safety and tolerability of sepofarsen administered via intravitreal (IVT) injection in pediatric subjects (<8 years of age) with LCA10 due to the c.2991+1655A>G mutation over 24 months of treatment.
The aim of the current project is to validate the effects of chronic rolflumilast treatment (12 weeks) on cognitive functions (i.e. episodic memory) by means of behavioral tasks, in people suffering from cognitive impairments at least 1 year after stroke. Secondarily, the effects of roflumilast on daily activities and well-being will be assessed.
The IVUS CHIP trial is a post-marketing strategy study in which patients with complex coronary lesions, undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), are treated either with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guided PCI or angiographic guided PCI . The IVUS-guided PCI approach is indicated to reduce the frequency of target-lesion failure (cardiac death, target-vessel myocardial infarction, and clinically indicated target-lesion revascularization) in patients with complex coronary lesions undergoing PCI. The objective of this study is to assess the superiority of an IVUS-guided approach versus an angio-guided approach in patients with complex coronary lesions undergoing PCI.
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a rare, life-threatening, genetic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system, significantly impairing the quality of life, with those affected having a median age of death at 40. The main objective of this study is to assess how safe and effective is the combination therapy of galicaftor/navocaftor/ABBV-119 or Galicaftor/Navocaftor/ABBV-576 in adult participants with CF who are homozygous or heterozygous for the F508del mutation in each arm. Galicaftor/Navocaftor/ABBV-119 combination therapy and Galicaftor/Navocaftor/ABBV-576 is being developed as an investigational drug for the treatment of CF. Study doctors place participants in 1 of the 4 groups, called treatment arms. Each group receives a different treatment. Around 90 adult participants with a diagnosis of CF will be enrolled in the study around approximately 35 sites worldwide. Participants in arm 1 will receive oral capsules of galicaftor/navocaftor dual combination for 28 days followed by galicaftor/navocaftor/ABBV-119 triple combination for 28 days. Participants in arms 2 and 3 will receive the galicaftor/navocaftor/ABBV-119 triple combination or placebo for 28 days. Participants in arm 4 will receive galicaftor/navocaftor/ABBV-576 triple combination therapy for 28 days. For all study arms, ABBV-576, galicaftor, navocaftor, will be given once daily and ABBV-119 twice a day. There may be higher treatment burden for participants in this trial compared to their standard of care. Participants will attend regular visits during the study at a hospital or clinic. The effect of the treatment will be checked by medical assessments, blood tests, checking for side effects and completing questionnaires.
Despite novel acute therapies the global burden of stroke remains high worldwide. Targeting the immune response after stroke has the potential to improve recovery in all stroke patients. Experimental studies suggest important roles for T-lymphocytes, especially anti-inflammatory regulatory T cells, in the evolution of stroke and neurological deficit. Objectives of this study are to either confirm or refute the hypothesis that a subset of brain regulatory T cells exists in humans and expands after stroke and to identify immunological biomarkers that can be used in stroke clinical trials targeting the adaptive immune system.
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and efficiency of OAGB compared to RYGB
Overcrowding in the emergency department is an increasing problem in hospitals worldwide. Point-of-care Troponin (POC cTn) testing combined with a well investigated risk stratification tool (HEART-score) used in the ambulance may contribute to more rapidly diagnostics of ruling in or ruling out myocardial infarctions (MI) and subsequently reduce unnecessary hospital admissions, total admission time and costs. However, the applicability of the POC cTn and the HEART-score in the pre-hospital setting remains unclear. This study will evaluate this applicability.
The researchers investigate the effect of long-term (12-weeks) consumption of diets rich in boiled potatoes versus those rich in rice or pasta on established cardiovascular risk parameters. These carbohydrate sources will be part of a recommended healthy dietary pattern to mimic as closely as possible current dietary guidelines, facilitating the implementation of the outcomes.