Cancer patients ineligible for trials receive immune checkpoint inhibitors at greater rates than trial eligible ones despite no survival benefit.
A new coalition of health organizations hopes to improve patient care using clinical research evidence in real time.
While clinical research associates are intensively trained in hard skills, soft skills are usually ignored.
In 2018, Children's Mercy decided to determine if REDCap could effectively document protocol-specific training compliance for its oncology trials.
By excluding pregnant people from research, health professionals are effectively disregarding the fact that these patients fall ill, and that people who are sick give birth.