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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on March 11, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(6):384-385; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn070
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CLINICAL TRIALS THAT COST LESS

Electronic Health Records Help Recruit Trial Participants and Track Drug Safety

Gunjan Sinha

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Recruiting patients for clinical trials can take months, and sometimes researchers still end up short. But what if they could enlist enough patients in half the time and conduct trials at a fraction of the cost?

Electronic health records may enable researchers to do exactly that. Researchers in Scotland will use Scottish and Danish electronic health records to recruit between 13,000 and 16,000 patients to compare traditional nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen and diclofenac, with the newer NSAID celecoxib. The trial is called the Standard Care Versus Celecoxib Outcome Trial (SCOT). No one has ever compared each NSAID head to head in a long-term trial.

"Electronic health records offer intriguing possibilities for clinical trials," said John Norrie, director of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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