Barbara: "I don't want to do the clinical trial. What if I'm the one who gets the sugar pill?" Cooper: "Yeah, I mean all that time and energy for nothing?" Dr. Theo: "Great question. Even when clinical trials are going to be using placebo, there are ways to design a trial to make sure that patients will get an active treatment - a real treatment - for the condition either right in the beginning or within a few weeks of starting the trial. Let me give you two examples: There are some trials where you will get study drug or placebo, but if the patient's not doing well after say 10 weeks, they're guaranteed of getting study drug automatically. Here is a second possibility very commonly used in cancer trials: All the patients will get established study treatment that's out there - so everybody's getting standard of care - some patients will (in addition) get a boost with study drug while others will get placebo. One other thing we can do to make sure that more patients actually get the boost rather than the placebo: For example, 2/3 of the patients may get the study drug and only 1/3 get the placebo."
The study will research QuickDASH (the short form of DASH) which measures disability of the arm, shoulder, and hand…
This study has two purposes: 1. To determine whether the most commonly used non-narcotic analgesic medication…
The study device in this trial was created to improve symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. The investigators…
For a small number of patients, carpal tunnel is an early manifestation of…
Two groups will be randomly selected to participate in a study examining the effectiveness of intra-operative…
This trial aims to use the long acting local anesthetic Exparel and opioid education to avoid any postoperative…
This research study is for patients who have carpal tunnel release surgery scheduled. Development is to determine…
Send this to a friend