There are about 10560 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Taiwan. 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 main purpose of this study is to evaluate how effective nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitors (NSAI) plus abemaciclib are in postmenopausal women with breast cancer. Participants will be randomized to abemaciclib or placebo in a 2:1 ratio.
The purpose of this study is to compare the objective response rate, progression free survival and the overall survival of Nivolumab combined with Ipilimumab to Sunitinib monotherapy in patients with previously untreated Renal Cell Cancer.
To improve the sensitivity and specificity of immunoassay, the developing trends are to lower the detection threshold and to minimize the cross reaction. A new assay technology called immunomagnetic reduction (IMR) has been developed for rapid and on-site assay with small volume of sample. Rapid diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a clinical and operational priority in busy emergency departments (ED), early and correct diagnosis is important. Cardiac enzymes (including CPK/CK-MB, troponins, myoglobulin) and electrocardiography (ECG) in combination with the medical history and physical examination are at present the diagnostic cornerstones. Novel biomarkers that rise earlier, have good diagnosis accuracy and have additional prognostic information are highly needed. The combination of multiple biomarker assays (markers of myocardial injury, inflammation/plaque ruptures or heart failure with different mechanism) may increase clinical sensitivity and improve early risk stratification. The present study, a rapid IMR assay with multiple biomarkers is proposed and we will examine the performance of this new investigational IMR assays, comparison with current commercial assays.
The quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been identified as an important determinants for patient survival, yet many studies revealed poor CPR guidelines compliance in real-life practice for both health care providers and lay persons. Common shortcomings identified include an insufficient number of chest compression, too rapid lung inflations, and too much hands-off time. The poor quality of CPR is associated with lower survival rate. Besides, some other problems could be found during resuscitation, such as prolonged intubation time, delayed first shock delivery or unsteady drug delivery interval. These problems can't be blamed on the only person but the teamwork. Certain measurements could improve the performance of the resuscitation team, such as audio prompt or checklist. Methods proposed and improvised to improve the quality of CPR have included CPR assisted devices, automatic driven devices or audio prompt system. However, some of these methods are hardly incorporate with the original resuscitation process since it could be an extra workload. Therefore, the investigators try to provide an digitized checklist combined with visual and audio alarming system, which could not only minimize the workload of chart recording but also remind the team to perform essential procedures in time. Information gained from a video-recording evaluation system had been employed to improve the resuscitation skills. The improvement of resuscitation quality also could be found through video-recording after certain intervention. It can also avoid the interference of the resuscitation and find out other harmful factors to CPR quality.
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains the most important infectious disease in the world. Keys to successful control of TB is rapid diagnosis, prompt treatment, as well as effective preventive therapy for contacts with latent TB infection (LTBI). Current methods for the diagnosis of LTBI are tuberculin skin test (TST) and interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA). For preventive therapy, the recommended regimens include daily isoniazid for 9 months and daily rifampicin for 4 months. By incorporating long-acting rifapentine, a new regimen combining weekly rifapentine and high-dose isoniazid for a total of 12 doses has been proven of equal potency and toxicity. However, the treatment completion rate is much higher in weekly treatment for 3 months than daily treatment for 9 months. It is reasonable that using rifapentine-based preventive therapy can markedly increase the completion rate. However, study is lacking, especially in Asia, the high endemic area of TB. With the effort of all health care workers and public health personnel, the incidence of TB in Taiwan has gradually declined in recent 10 years. In order to maintain the trend of decreasing in incidence, preventive therapy for LTBI become more and more important. However, which is the best preventive regimen for LTBI is still unknown. Therefore, we conduct the prospective randomized multicenter studies to compare the treatment completion rate of two regimens in Taiwan. The first regimen is daily isoniazid for 9 months. The second is weekly rifapentine plus high-dose isoniazid for 3 months.
Purpose of this study is to determine whether NAET procedures are effective in the treatment of crab or shrimp allergy. Hypothesis: experimental group will show a significant improvement over the control group in allergic symptom, serum crab- or shrimp-specific IgE and skin test for crab or shrimp extract.
Aims: to Establish the FLS services at the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) and its Beihu Branch (BB). Method: From Jan., 2014, two related fracture liaison services (FLSs) following the 13 'Capture the Fracture Best Practice Standards' were implemented at the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) health care system. The main hospital (MH) program enrolled patient with 1) new hip fracture 2) newly identified radiographic vertebral fractures or 3) clinical vertebral fractures from both inpatients and outpatients. The Beihu branch (BB) program enrolled only the later two types of patients from outpatients. During the whole study period, two programs planed to enroll 600 fracture patients. Each patient would be assessed at baseline, and every 4 month for at least one year.
BACKGROUND: One-year adherence to oral anti-osteoporosis medication (AOMs) was only about 30%. In recent years, efforts have been made to change the delivery of these medications from oral form to injection form every, 3, 6 or 12 months to increase adherence. However, both patients and providers are sometimes confused about the multiple choices. Also, patients may receive extra medications if providers did not keep tract of their previous AOM uses or patients may changes providers. There were urgent needs to provide AOM monitoring and management services to improve cares. OBJECTIVES: To establish a anti-osteoporosis medication management service at National Taiwan University Hospital and its BeiHu Branch. METHODS: Participating physicians will select those eligible for services and refer to study coordinators. Study coordinators will conduct baseline assessments on osteoporosis/fracture risks, record medical conditions, AOMs, provide educations on osteoporosis, fracture, sarcopenia, fall, medications, nutrition, and exercise. They also arrange return clinic visit, telephone reminder and follow up for patients, and communicate with providers on regular bases. the investigators plan to enroll 500 patients with 18-month follow up for each.
The primary objective of A-PLUS trial is to evaluate and compare the efficacy of induction BEEP (bevacizumab preconditioning followed by etoposide and cisplatin) followed by whole bran radiotherapy (WBRT) with WBRT alone in the controlling of brain metastases (BM) in metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients who have not previously received WBRT. In past 2 years, the research team has demonstrated that BEEP regimen is a highly effective treatment for brain metastases of breast cancer progressing from WBRT by a multi-center phase II study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01281696). The basic concept of preconditioning, as referred to starting bevacizumab 1 day before chemotherapy, is that the effect of bevacizumab induced tumor vascular normalization takes time to mature. The investigators hypothesized that as induction BEEP decreased the size of brain tumors, the effectiveness of WBRT would be maximized. The investigators expect this integrated approach will do greater benefit to MBC patients with BM, irrespective of subtype.
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of ixazomib citrate maintenance therapy on progression-free survival (PFS), compared to placebo, in participants with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) who have had a response (complete response [CR], very good partial response [VGPR], or partial response [PR]) to induction therapy followed by high-dose therapy (HDT) and autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT).