There are about 36633 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in France. 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.
Heart failure reaches 1.5 million people in France and is responsible for 200,000 hospitalizations per year. Over the past ten years, new therapies have emerged (treatment of martial deficiency, Entresto, iSGLT2). Hospitalization in a context of acute heart failure is a moment of choice in the history of the disease to introduce recommended treatments under closer supervision (clinical, biological) than in ambulatory, and allows a decrease in hospitalizations, morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study is to describe the introduction of heart failure drugs (including iSGLT2) in real-life settings in patients hospitalized for decompensated heart failure.
41.3% of patients hospitalized in intensive care express feeling anxiety when they are systematically questioned. Ventilatory weaning is one of the moments of anxiety for the patient. While being conscious he must tolerate invasive ventilation. The early mobilization of patients in intensive care must be started early, within 24-48 hours, after the patient wakes up. Early mobilization is part of the weaning process from invasive mechanical ventilation in intensive care. It is recommended to reduce it to use relaxation therapies. Several studies have assessed the impact of relational touch in conscious or unconscious patients in intensive care. The SRLF consensus conference in 2010 recommends the use of massage for anxiolytic purposes. This study aims to assess the impact of relational touch versus standard care on anxiety during the first bedside session, in intubated intensive care patients ventilated for at least 48 hours and presenting with RASS (Richmond agitation sedation scale). ) from 0 to -1. The study will aussi assess the impact of relational touch versus standard care on the following patient parameters: - Evaluation of caregiver anxiety with the Spielberger inventory before and after the session - Increasing the duration of the bedside session; - Variations in pain, assessed by the Behavioral Pain Scale (BPS) at the end of the session; - The level of agitation/vigilance at the beginning and at the end of the session with the Richmond agitation-sedation scale (RASS); - Induced variations in blood pressure; - Induced variations in oxygen saturation; - The variations induced on the respiratory rate; - The variations induced on the heart rate; - The need to prescribe psychotropic drugs on the day of the first bedside; - Reduction in the number of days of invasive mechanical ventilation between the first bedside session and discharge from intensive care unit (maximum D28 after the first bedside session). This is a national, multicenter, cluster, randomized, controlled trial with 4-stage stepped-wedge design (1:1:1:1 randomization), phase III, superiority, open-label, comparing systematic practice relational touch by the paramedical team during bedside sessions, versus standard care (without relational touch). The benefit is above all for the patient with a better experience of bedside sessions and a reduction in ventilation time, therefore bed rest, leading to a reduction in decubitus complications. The expected economic benefit involves the reduction of decubitus complications and therefore their cost and the reduction of hospitalization times in intensive care.
Cutibacterium acnes is involved in nearly 40% of shoulder prosthetic joint infections (PJI). After shoulder prothesis, C. acnes mainly affects hip prosthesis. One recent work from the Lyon (France) bone and joint infections reference center with data focusing mainly on hip and knee PJI has reported that C. acnes is the leading cause of late-onset PJI after coagulase negative staphylococci (CNS) (late acute PJI not considered). In such late-onset device-related infection, biofilm, as produced by C. acnes during PJI represents a major hurdle on the path to patient's cure. Because biofilm-associated bacteria have a slower metabolism and a lower multiplication rate than planktonic bacteria, antibiotic susceptibility can be hampered. Rifampicin is an antibiotic with low minimal bactericidal concentration against S. aureus and CNS biofilm-associated bacteria8 which significantly influence patient's outcome during staphylococci PJI.
Currently in France, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) represents over 30% of indications of liver transplantation (LT) (# 500 cases/year). Chemoembolization (TACE) is the most commonly used bridge treatment in those patients (estimate 60%). These patients will present with a complete response in only 60 % of the cases (# 180 patients per year in France) and failure in 40 % of the cases (# 120 patients per year in France). A systemic treatment using lenvatinib might provide a benefit in patients presenting with a non-resectable HCC in waiting list for LT and with a TACE failure (i.e. those with an active disease and a partial response or a stable disease or a progressive disease on imaging data, in particular when AFP remains significantly increased after 2 TACE) by decreasing dropout rate before LT and decreasing recurrence rate post-LT without new safety signal.
This is an observational study in which only data are collected from participants receiving their usual treatment. The study is done in children under 2 years old with venous thromboembolism (VTE). VTE is a condition in which blood clots form in the veins, usually in the leg. This can cause pain and swelling. The clot can also break apart and travel in the blood to the lungs where it can block the blood flow. This can be life threatening. Rivaroxaban is approved for doctors to prescribe to children with VTE, but there is limited information about how it is used, how well it works, and how safe it is in children under 2 years old. Children in this study are already receiving or will receive rivaroxaban or other currently used medicines for VTE from their doctor according to the approved product information. The purpose of this study is to collect information on the pattern of use and safety of rivaroxaban and other standard medicines for VTE in children under 2 years old. The main information that researchers will collect in this study: - Age, gender, and other information about the child and their illness - Type of VTE treatment given to the child - Occurrence of medically important bleeding and its severity Further information that researchers will collect: - Changes in the characteristics of the children given VTE treatment (e.g., changes in the age range of children given VTE treatment) and changes in the treatment pattern for VTE - Return of VTE symptoms - Types of doctors who prescribe VTE treatment and their set-up (e.g., special clinics versus hospitals) Besides this data collection, no further tests or examinations are needed in this study. The data for this study will be collected from electronic health records and health insurance claims data until 2026. Researchers will observe each child during treatment until: - end of the anticoagulation treatment period e.g. discontinuation of all study drugs, - their information is no longer available, or - the study ends.
The investigators propose to adult patients needing the creation of a vascular access for hemodialysis, not eligible to the creation of a distal AVF, to create a percutaneous anastomosis between an artery and a vein (endo-AVFs). The study is a prospective single-center cohort (Nice University Hospital) with a 2-year follow-up (recruitment: 18 months, length of study per patient: 24 months, data analysis: 6 months). After the procedure, patients will receive duplex-ultrasound follow-up, according to local practice, at 6 weeks (+ surgical examination), 3, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months.
Aortic dissection is an uncommon and serious pathology. Its diagnosis is difficult because of the varied and silent clinical presentations. The development of ultrasound in emergency medicine is an asset in certain pathologies. The aim of this study is therefore to study the feasibility of a protocol integrating clinical ultrasound in the suspicion of acute aortic dissection in the hospital setting. This study is a single-center prospective interventional study. In which the investigators perform ultrasound in patients with suspected acute aortic dissection in the emergency department. If the protocol is feasible and if it allows a saving of time in the diagnosis or an increase in diagnoses, the investigators will be able to evoke a profitability to the systematic realization of this examination.
The aim of the SEMASEARCH project is therefore to constitute a retrospective cohort, from the available data on patients already included in the ATUc/AP2, and prospective, on new patients who will initiate treatment according to the AP2 PUT, of 15 Specialized Obesity Centers in order to describe the effect of WEGOVY® treatment in this population. Thanks to a high phenotyping, subpopulations of interest will be identified to know the specifics of the effect of the treatment in these subgroups of interest. Secondary analyses will aim to look for clinical or biological biomarkers of success in the weight response to WEGOVY® in the entire prospective cohort, but also in specific subpopulations. In summary, the analysis of the entire SEMASEARCH cohort and sub-populations of interest will be based on a complete clinical phenotyping of patients (included in retrospective and prospective studies), completed by ad hoc questionnaires and associated with biological markers (prospective) partly collected within the framework of the WEGOVY® AP (glycaemia, hepatic assessment, lipid assessment ) and partly from a biobank to test specific hypotheses (predictive role of leptin sensitivity, insulin sensitivity level, plasma level of endocannabinoids, etc.). In addition, approaches using artificial intelligence (AI), notably machine learning, will make it possible to determine the variables or combination of variables that are most predictive of the weight response to treatment with WEGOVY® in the largest population. Indeed, individual weight loss in response to weight loss strategies is highly variable, whether purely related to lifestyle changes or pharmacological. Well-known factors associated with the ability to lose weight include adherence to lifestyle change, gender, age and specific medications. However, after controlling for these factors, differences in weight loss appear to persist in response to different interventions including pharmacological ones. Adaptation to energy deficit involves complex feedback mechanisms, and inter-individual differences are likely to arise from a range of poorly defined factors. Thus, a better understanding of the factors involved in inter-individual variability in response to WEGOVY® will help guide more personalised approaches to the management of these patients. AI techniques will be used to determine which combination of clinical or biological variables are most predictive of weight response.
Cavernous sinus meningiomas are close to optic nerve, pituitary gland, cranial nerve, and hippocampi. The doses delivered to these structures are crucial and radiotherapy of cavernous sinus meningiomas exposes patients to late secondary effects (pituitary deficit, nerve palsy, cognitive impairment…). In 2012, Gondi reported that a dose given to 40% of the bilateral hippocampi greater than 7.3 Gy is associated with long-term impairment in list-learning delayed recall after FSRT for benign or low-grade adult brain tumors. There is no published or recruiting prospective study evaluating the impact of proton-therapy or conventional irradiation on neurocognitive function for meningioma patients. Notably, long-term cognitive or ocular impact of these modern irradiation schemes remains poorly known. Yet, these patients had a long life-expectancy, and are at risk of developing long-term sequelae. Thus, according to its ballistic advantage, an improvement of patient functional outcomes and a reduction of neurocognitive long-term toxicity are expected if tissue sparing proton-therapy is used. In this context, a randomized prospective study, evaluating long-term toxicity of these two irradiation modalities (Proton Therapy (PRT) and photon radiotherapy (XRT)) seems crucial to further assess proton-therapy indication for these patients. Although literature reports excellent outcomes for intracranial meningioma patients treated by proton-therapy, none of the eight retrospective studies found in the literature used an accurate and full evaluation of long-term toxicity
General practitioners are very often confronted with requests for care from their relatives (family, friends, etc.). In the United States, the recommendations advise general practitioners against taking care of their loved ones on several grounds: lack of professional objectivity, lack of information due to modesty, risk of loss of patient autonomy. Some countries even prohibit general practitioners from prescribing to a loved one except in an emergency. In France, there is no current recommendation on the care of relatives. Half of French general practitioners have a physical secretary and are therefore potentially confronted with requests for care from their medical secretary.