There are about 173942 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in United States. 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 aim of this study is to determine if the Stable Airway Management device (SAM) is safe in maintaining the airway in a stable, non-obstructing position during anesthetic cases requiring monitored anesthesia care (MAC).
The overarching goal of this study is to develop a suicide prevention program for sexual-and-gender-minority youth and emerging adults. After development of the intervention program, an open phase trial will be conducted to test its feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact on three intervention targets.
Purpose: This study is partnering with communities to identify the best ways to provide HIV prevention communication and services for women living in public housing who have been disproportionately affected by HIV but underserved by current HIV prevention programs. The investigators want to work with community members to develop and design the delivery of a program to promote awareness of and access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention among women living in public housing. Participants: Up to 248 cisgender females who are 18 years of age or older and currently reside in Durham Housing Authority (DHA) housing will be enrolled in this study at UNC. Procedures (methods): Data collection for this formative study will consist of 4 focus groups of up to 12 women in each focus group living in DHA as well as a survey of 200 women living in DHA.
The purpose of this study is to assess sample collection conditions for various dietary challenges (fat, sugar, and mixed) and determine the optimal fasting and post-meal sample collection time points for future studies on a larger group of individuals. Study participants will attend three study visits where they take part in lipid, glucose, and mixed meal challenges. At each of the three visits, participants will provide venous blood samples and a urine sample before consuming the test meal and will provide 6 additional venous finger blood samples post-meal.
The Chinese American Family Caregiver Writing Study is a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) testing the efficacy of the Expressive Helping (EH) intervention among Chinese Americans who are providing care for family members undergoing cancer treatment.
Organ procurement organizations (OPO) have increased organ recovery efficiency and yield and have also reduced organ acquisition charges. The new liver allocation policy came into effect in February 2020 and aims to increase access to organs for waitlist candidates with the greatest severity of illness. The urgent change was driven by the perception that patients were dying because of arbitrary boundaries and inequitable access. Critics of the new policy have highlighted the potential cost implications particularly at an OPO level. A study of five OPOs throughout the United States highlighted an increase in costs ranging from 43% - 206% despite the same volume of livers transplanted. The main reason for the cost appears to lie in organ handling and transport. This mirrors the findings of Puri and colleagues who acknowledged changes to lung transplantation at Barnes Jewish Hospital in the pre- and post-policy eras and reported a substantial decline in local donors. The new lung system has also resulted in a higher organ discard rate and ultimately higher costs. Such data has generated meaningful discussions regarding optimizing organ allocation polices, however, data from individual transplant centers is lacking in the literature. Changes at a transplant center level relating to recipient costs are likely impacted by the new policy, which could be related to patient travel, accommodation, work up etc.
The primary aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of an adapted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - Insomnia (CBT-I) intervention in improving sleep in a firefighter population.
This study will evaluate the effects on venous blood flow of the investigational device, OsciPulse system, which is an external intermittent limb compression device. The study will enroll healthy human subjects who will have their deep venous blood flow measured by vascular ultrasound during immobility, use of the OsciPulse system, and use of two reference vascular compression devices. Our hypothesis is that the OsciPulse system will create distinct patterns of venous flow, specifically at the site of venous valves, in comparison to the reference compression devices.
This study will be conducted to assess the efficacy, pharmacodynamic (PD), safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of RGB -14- P compared to US-licensed Prolia® in participants with postmenopausal osteoporosis, in a comparative manner.
This study is a multi-site, randomized pragmatic trial being conducted at three diverse sites. The study, called the Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Team (START), will evaluate whether a collaborative care team increases the use of two interventions-medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD), and opioid use disorder (OUD) focused discharge planning-among hospitalized patients with OUD, and improves linkage to follow-up care relative to usual care. The START consists of an addiction medicine specialist and a care manager who will use evidence-based tools to decrease barriers to MOUD and engage patients with post-discharge OUD care. A total of 414 patients will be randomized from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, and Baystate Health in Springfield, Massachusetts to receive either START or usual care, stratifying by prior MOUD exposure and site.