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Do Clinical Trials for Treatment and
Technology Face Similar Challenges?
Clinical trials for medicine and medical devices share similar challenges,
including process inefficiencies and
approval delays, but collaborative
stakeholders can help seize opportunities to improve these trials for everyone involved, according to two review
papers published in Oct. 17 in JACC.
Randomized clinical trials (RCTs)
are the benchmark to determine
therapeutic efficacy and safety. However, as large clinical outcome trials in
cardiovascular disease have proliferated, so have t