Clinical trials are a critical step in improving treatments and care for acute stroke patients, and enrolling a large and diverse patient population in trials helps push research forward.
At the Stroke Treatment Academic Industry Roundtable XII meeting in March, stroke physicians, researchers, industry representatives and members of the National Institute of Neurological disorders and Stroke and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration discussed the current status of enrolling patients in acute stroke trials and the most pressing issues impacting enrollment.
The meeting's review and recommendations were recently published in the journal Stroke , led by corresponding author Joseph Broderick, MD, professor in the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine in the College of Medicine, director of the UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute and a UC Health physician.
Meeting members discussed enrollment issues including:
"In conclusion, enrollment of participants is the lifeblood of acute stroke trials and is the rate-limiting step for testing an exciting array of new approaches to improve patient outcomes," Broderick and his colleagues wrote. "In particular, efforts should be undertaken to broaden the medical community’s understanding and implementation of emergency consent procedures and to adopt designs and processes that are easily incorporated into standard workflow and that improve trials’ efficiencies and execution.
"Research and actions to improve enrollment in ongoing and future trials will improve stroke outcomes more broadly than any single therapy under consideration," the authors continued.
Other authors included the University of Cincinnati's Yasmin Aziz, MD, and Eva Mistry, MBBS.
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Enhancing Enrollment in Acute Stroke Trials: Current State and Consensus Recommendations
11-Sep-2023