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Establishing a successful clinical research program.

ABSTRACT: Clinical research (CR) is a natural corollary to clinical surgery. It gives an investigator the opportunity to critically review their results and develop new strategies. This article covers the critical factors and the important components of a successful CR program. The first and most important step is to build a dedicated research team to overcome time constraints and enable a surgical practice to make CR a priority. With the research team in place, the next step is to create a program on the basis of an original idea and new clinical hypotheses. This often comes from personal experience supported by a review of the available evidence. Randomized controlled (clinical) trials are the most stringent way of determining whether a cause-effect relationship exists between the intervention and the outcome. In the proper setting, translational research may offer additional avenues allowing clinical application of basic science discoveries.

SUBMITTER: Scoglio D

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4078205 | biostudies-other | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Establishing a successful clinical research program.

Scoglio Daniele D Fichera Alessandro A

Clinics in colon and rectal surgery 20140601 2

Clinical research (CR) is a natural corollary to clinical surgery. It gives an investigator the opportunity to critically review their results and develop new strategies. This article covers the critical factors and the important components of a successful CR program. The first and most important step is to build a dedicated research team to overcome time constraints and enable a surgical practice to make CR a priority. With the research team in place, the next step is to create a program on the ...[more]

PMID: 25067920

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Project description:BackgroundOne in four Americans, and 70% of people who have dementia, will spend their final days in nursing home care. Clinical research, particularly clinical trials, rarely includes this population due to unique challenges in research methods and ethics. Families of advanced dementia patients make choices about tube feeding and other feeding options with limited access to information or communication. The cluster randomized trial, Improving Decision Making about Feeding Options for Dementia Patients, tests a decision aid intervention to improve the quality of decision making for this choice.PurposeOur objectives are (1) to describe the methods used in this trial; (2) to describe challenges and strategies for effective nursing home and nursing home resident recruitment and retention; and (3) to describe research ethics approaches to minimize harms and maximize benefits for this population.MethodsThe study is a cluster randomized trial of a decision aid to inform and support the choice between tube feeding and assisted oral feeding in advanced dementia. Study subjects are paired surrogate decision makers and residents with advanced dementia and feeding problems, enrolled from nursing homes in North Carolina.ResultsThis trial enrolled 256 paired surrogate decision makers and residents in 24 nursing home sites, and 99% completed participation through the 3-month study period. The research team had prior clinical and investigative experience in this setting, and used multiple strategies to recruit and retain nursing home sites, providers, surrogates, and the residents for whom they spoke. Informed consent and human subjects' protections were designed to address the vulnerability of this population.LimitationsCluster randomization was necessary to avoid contamination between control and intervention subjects, but may introduce confounding by site and intracluster correlation effects in analyses.ConclusionsStrategies that facilitate nursing home recruitment, participant recruitment and protection of human subjects for a vulnerable population may be used by future investigators to expand the research evidence base for nursing home and dementia care.

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