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LENS - a clinical trial embedded in routine clinical practice to reduce the burden of diabetic eye disease
- Abstract:
- Embedding clinical trials in routine clinical care provides the opportunity to enhance efficiency and reduce costs. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) remains a common cause of blindness and impaired vision and treatment of advanced DR is costly. However, few trials have been designed to investigate treatments which may retard progression from observable DR to advanced DR because the condition usually progresses slowly, it is challenging to identify patients at risk of progression to clinically significant DR without retinal imaging and studies require medical professionals and specialist equipment to capture and grade retinal images. This highlights the need for streamlined trials which can identify large numbers of eligible patients and follow them cost-effectively for extended periods.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1186/s13063-017-1902-y
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central
- Host title:
- 4th International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference (ICTMC) and the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials
- Journal:
- 4th International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference (ICTMC) and the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials More from this journal
- Publication date:
- 2017-05-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-11-21
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1745-6215
- Pubs id:
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pubs:735132
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uuid:23b7c1fb-2cc1-4a82-b369-297a355fc57f
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pubs:735132
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735132
- Deposit date:
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2017-12-30
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- Preiss et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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