The current issue of Medicine on the Net has an article on the use of the
Internet for running clinical trials. Some of the URLs it mentions (not
checked by me yet):
www.waife.com
www.aori.com
www.tvisions.com
www.phaseforward.com
Ben Toth
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Samuel Wiebe <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: 08 January 1999 18:54
Subject: The WWW and patient recuitment for RCTs
>Dear all,
>We are in the process of planning a multicentre surgical RCT for epilepsy
in
>North America for which recruitment of eligible patients is foreseen as the
>main issue (they are not usually seen in neurology clinics, many may be
seen
>at the primary care level). The idea has been raised of a Web site to
inform
>the public and clinicians and to invite patient participation.
>
>A PubMed search using:
>
>(((((("internet"[MeSH Terms] OR internet[Text Word]) OR www[All Fields]) OR
>"world wide web"[All Fields]) OR (web[All Fields]
>AND
>site[All Fields]))
>AND
>(((recruitment[All Fields] OR accrual[All Fields]) OR "patient
>participation"[All Fields]) OR participation[All Fields]))
>AND
>((("randomized controlled trial*"[All Fields] OR "clinical trial*"[All
>Fields]) OR rct[All Fields]) OR "clinical research"[All Fields]))
>
>turned out only 1 paper:
>
>Afrin LB, et al. Electronic clinical trial protocol distribution via the
>World-Wide Web: a prototype for reducing costs and errors, improving
>accrual, and saving trees.
> J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1997 Jan-Feb;4(1):25-35.
>
>Does anyone have experience with this?
>
>Many thanks.
>
>Sam Wiebe
>
>
>Samuel Wiebe, MD, MSc, FRCPC
>Assistant professor, Neurology
>Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences
>Departament of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
>University of Western Ontario
>CANADA
>
>London Health Sciences Centre, University Campus
>339 Windermere Rd
>London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5A5
>Tel (519) 663-3984
>Fax (519) 663-3753
>
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