The decision to the end trial, which was called Beacone, was recommended by an Independent Data Monitoring committee.
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This was the recommendation of the independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) based on its 5th unblinded review of all study safety data.
But now that they're free from individual blame, there's also the strong possibility that the ISPs will be doing the data monitoring directly.
This approach has enabled doctors to improve the well-being of their patients through additional data monitoring and control without the need for additional surgery.
The data monitoring committee overseeing the trial said patients were unlikely to benefit from the treatment, and identified higher adverse events in the subjects receiving the drug compares to placebo.
The outcome prompteed an independent data monitoring committee recommended patients who are on placebo should be offered Zytiga, which was approved to treat advanced prostate cancer patients who did not benefit from chemo.
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Hennekens led studies that helped establish the health benefits of aspirin and also spends a lot of time serving on committees known as data monitoring boards, which help keep participants in clinical trials safe.
The action was based on the recommendation of the independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC), after it found an increased risk for non-fatal stroke, renal complications, hyperkalemia, and hypotension in patients taking aliskiren after 18-24 months.
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Novartis was informed that the independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) overseeing ALTITUDE had recommended stopping the trial because Tekturna was unlikely to show any benefit, and potential safety concerns had been identified in these high-risk patients.
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Like others on the leading edge in health care, they believe this direction of paying for outcomes rather than individual treatments, and intensive data monitoring to understand what works and which patients are at risk, will become the way of the future regardless of what the Supreme Court decides on the Obama health care law.
Data safety monitoring boards (DSMBs) are chartered to look at data from clinical trials as it comes into protect the safety of patient volunteers.
The Data Safety Monitoring Board for the APPROVe study recommended that the study be stopped for safety reasons.
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Like all major outcome studies, the IMPROVE-IT trial is being monitored by an independent data safety monitoring board (DSMB).
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One, Marvin Konstam of Tufts University, said he was on the data safety monitoring board for a study of Natrecor.
The lack of a data safety monitoring board is "sub-optimal, " says Steven Joffe, a bioethicist and researcher at the Dana Farber Cancer Center.
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Because of the this change, and because the data and safety monitoring board reviewed the data multiple times over the course of the study, the threshold for statistical significance was lowered to 0.036.
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Independent Data Safety Monitoring Board Recommends St.
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Some of the main concerns that emerged were that existing data and monitoring systems in the region are perceived to be inadequate and weak and that stakeholders, the public, and even decision makers need to be better involved.
This study had neither a steering committee, as a group of experts who regularly convened to discuss the trial and its data, nor a data safety monitoring board (DSMB), which carefully watches study information to make sure patients are not harmed.
As a result of the positive interim analysis, the FAME II independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) has recommended investigators stop patient enrollment in this trial as the DSMB considers it unethical to continue to randomize patients to optimal medical therapy (OMT) alone.
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But empowering end users is just one step in an end-to-end analytics value chain, which consists of cleaning data, storing it, preparing it for analysis, monitoring data for key events as it arrives, capturing knowledge in rules-based playbooks, delivering subsets to those who need it, and giving them the tools to analyze it.
Each one of these helpful features is displayed in Count's colorful and handsome interface, which makes monitoring data consumption even better.
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Will the data safety-monitoring boards of these studies have to meet in order to make sure squamous cell patients are safe?
The new service pairs the Samsung SmartCam SNH-1011 with iWatchLife's cloud-based server to provide all the home-monitoring data your paranoid heart requires.
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The trial was stopped early in July 2011 by the data and safety monitoring board when the benefits in the Mediterranean diet groups crossed a predetermined boundary.
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Prof Graham also noted how: "Scotland is very much affected by migration into Scotland and migration within Scotland" and lamented the lack of data collection on monitoring this.
Initiatives such as Argo have reached out to stakeholders that do not traditionally participate in scientific research in an effort to use existing marine traffic for the purpose of gathering scientific data and launching monitoring equipment.
Following a positive interim analysis showing that fractional flow-reserve-guided PCI was superior to optimal medical treatment, an independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) has recommended that patient enrollment in the ongoing FAME II trial be stopped.
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