Clinical trials: Medical Screening
Colorectal Cancer Screening
Promoting Informed Decisions About Cancer Screening in Older Adults
This project aims to examine the impact of different interventions designed to help individualize colorectal cancer (CRC) screening decisions in adults aged 76-85. Clinicians will be assigned by chance to one of two arms.
- Trial name
- PRIMED (NCT03959696)
- Testing
- Notification, Training
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 536 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Prostate Cancer
Community Interventions in Non-medical Settings to Increase Informed Decision Making for Prostate Cancer Screening
The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a computer-based decision aid (DA) for use by men considering prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer.
- Trial name
- NCT00207636
- Testing
- Computer Assisted Decision making tool
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 812 people
- Sponsor
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Hypercholesterolemia, Hypercholesterolemia, Familial
Evaluating the Efficacy of Pediatric Lipid Screening Alerts
The purpose of the study is to evaluate prospectively the impact of different system alerts on the prescription of lipid panels to pediatric Geisinger patients (9-11 years old), as per the now-universal guidelines.
- Conditions
- Hypercholesterolemia, Hypercholesterolemia, Familial, Hypercholesteremia in Children, Hyperlipidemia in Children
- Trial name
- NCT04118348
- Testing
- Best Practice Alert, Health Maintenance Topic
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 13,340 people
- Sponsor
- Geisinger Clinic
Screening
Doctors' Understanding of Survival Statistics
The probably most commonly used measure for expressing the pay-offs of early detection and treatment are survival rates. Yet, over time and groups this metric comes with several biases and thus, is not reliable for judging such…
- Trial name
- MPIB (NCT00981019)
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 778 people
- Sponsor
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Diabetic Retinopathy
A Single-center, Retrospective Study to Evaluate the Clinical Performance of Artificial Intelligence Medical Assisted Diagnostic Software (VeriSee DR) for Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus
This study is to evaluate the clinical performance of VeriSee DR for DR screening from color fundus photography images in patients with diabetes mellitus.
- Trial name
- NCT04160988
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 703 people
- Sponsor
- Acer Being Health Inc.
Acromegaly
Programme of Acromegaly Screening in Patients With Associated Somatic Disorders
The primary objective of the protocol is to define percentage of patients with acromegaly in relation to the total number of screened patients with confirmed clinically significant set of associated somatic disorders with the…
- Trial name
- ACROSCREEN (NCT02020967)
- Testing
- Non-interventional cross-sectional survey
- Where
- 2 sites in Russia
- Volunteers
- 367 people
- Sponsor
- Ipsen
Colorectal Cancer Screening
Information With or Without Numbers For Optimizing Reasoning About Medical Decisions
Experts believe that increasing the low uptake of screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) requires educating patients about all approved tests and helping them choose one that fits their preferences.
- Trial name
- INFORM (NCT02477553)
- Testing
- DA - Quantitative, DA - Verbal
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 728 people
- Sponsor
- Indiana University
Macular Degeneration, Age Related, Maculopathy, Age Related
Clinical Evaluation of VeriSee AMD in Screening for Age-Related Macular Degeneration
An observational study is designed to evaluate the clinical performance of VeriSee AMD for potential age-related macular degeneration (AMD) screening from color fundus photography images.
- Trial name
- NCT05593913
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 986 people
- Sponsor
- Acer Medical Inc.
Hepatitis B
The Effect of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Alert on Hepatitis B Screening
Asian and Pacific Islander Americans at risk, but never tested for chronic hepatitis B have been randomized to receive an electronic alert in their electronic medical chart to remind primary care physicians to screen them for…
- Trial name
- NCT04240678
- Testing
- Electronic HBV Alert
- Volunteers
- 8,299 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, Davis
Strabismus
Mobile Medical Application for Cost-effective Strabismus Screening
Develop and evaluate a new smartphone based app to screen for and measure eye misalignment (strabismus). The investigators will validate the app against simulated strabismus of known magnitude and common clinical tests.
- Trial name
- NCT03450980
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 91 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Pain, Pain Management
Effective Screening for Pain Study
In light of the importance of pain and widespread interest in patient-centeredness, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been emphasizing and successfully making pain and its management a routine feature of the health…
- Trial name
- ESP (NCT01816763)
- Testing
- NRS pain one week, PEG, DVPRS
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 569 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Medical Education
Effect of a Community Service-Learning Intervention on Medical Empathy and Clinical Self-Efficacy in Medical Students
Medical empathy and clinical self-efficacy are key professional competencies that are difficult to develop through traditional classroom-based training alone.
- Trial name
- ApS-MED-IZT (NCT07528521)
- Testing
- Community Service-Learning Anthropometric Assessment
- Where
- Mexico
- Volunteers
- 35 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Luis Angel Flores Sagrero