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November 21, 2024: Are Pragmatic Trials Living Up to the Promise of Improving Representativeness?

Rethinking Clinical Trials

In a new commentary, members of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory’s Ethics and Regulatory Core explore the potential of pragmatic trials to improve demographic representativeness and health equity in clinical research. Representativeness in Pragmatic Clinical Trials,” was published online ahead of print in JAMA.

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April 17, 2025: Researchers Illustrate Potential for Observational Studies of Real-World Data to Emulate Randomized Trials

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Researchers applied the “target trial emulation framework” to highlight important design considerations for observational studies that use real-world data to emulate randomized clinical trials. Learn more about the NIH Collaboratory’s Distributed Research Network. Read the full report.

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December 3, 2024: Sharing Results With Research Participants Raises Special Considerations in Pragmatic Trials

Rethinking Clinical Trials

In a new report from the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory, a team of bioethicists explores the ethical obligation to share aggregate results from pragmatic clinical trials with research participants. The article was published online ahead of print in Clinical Trials.

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April 22, 2025: New Report Highlights Value of Informing Participants About Research Conducted Under a Waiver of Consent

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Even in minimal-risk studies that do not use the standard consent process, there may be value in informing participants about the research. Such notifications should be considered the default for clinical trials conducted under a waiver of informed consent, argue the authors of a new report from the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes.

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November 25, 2024: NIH Collaboratory Trial Investigators Share Lessons From Using Electronic Health Records in Pragmatic Trials

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Drawing on experiences from the NIH Collaboratory Trials, authors of a new article in Contemporary Clinical Trials describe the challenges they encountered when relying on data from the electronic health record (EHR) to monitor outcomes and deliver interventions in pragmatic clinical trials embedded in healthcare systems.

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March 19, 2025: Use of Generative AI in Clinical Trials, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

Rethinking Clinical Trials

. “AJ” Blood of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital will present “Generative Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Trials: A Driver of Efficiency and Democratization of Care.” ” The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, March 21, 2025, at 1:00 pm eastern. Join the online meeting.

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The New Age of Decentralized Clinical Trials

White paper that delves into the complex topic of Decentralized Clinical Trials and how to master them within the confines of FDA Regulations

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The New Age of Decentralized Clinical Trials

This new white paper defines and details the impact of Decentralized Clinical Trials on the Pharmaceutical industry and how the impact can be measured along with steps companies can take to ensure adoption.

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Clinical Research White Paper – Enhancing Transparency & Efficiency Throughout the Trial Lifecycle

Enhancing Transparency & Efficiency Throughout the Trial Lifecycle for AI Readiness

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management.

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Unlocking Excellence: How Catalent Is Transforming Japan’s Clinical Research

Planning on running clinical trials in Japan? How can you reliably supply these studies? Discover Catalent’s clinical supply packaging facility in Shiga, Japan.