The program will be implemented and trialled at 8 hospital sites in the Australian states of New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania across a mix of Pharmacy Access/Remoteness Index of Australia (PhARIA) classes.
Recommendations to improve infrastructure may take some years to fully implement, and clinical trials that benefit from the new infrastructure will then take time to read out.
However, individualised care planning during the postnatal period which incorporates a high level of flexibility may be challenging for organisations to manage and implement, and a randomised controlled trial of such an approach may not be feasible.
The network will establish the infrastructure necessary to initiate, implement, and evaluate randomized controlled trials in community settings and health care facilities among pregnant women, newborns, infants, and children to the age of 3 years.
The Cancer in the Elderly Committee has been successful in developing, implementing, and completing trials in all these areas and serves as a major resource for clinical trials development for the CALGB.
Phase 2 involves a randomised controlled trial to implement and evaluate the programme.
We focus on the impact of copying as an addition to resource preference development and do not implement copying and trial-and-error learning as alternatives.
As discussion leader for the keynote session ("Informing Etiology Through the Clinic"), Warren Olanow brought home the practical difficulties inherent in designing, implementing, and interpreting a trial of an agent designed to be "disease-modifying" or "neuroprotective" in PD.
First, during the course of the trial, qualitative feedback will be gathered periodically from the case workers in the participating sites to identify the difficulties or facilitators in implementing and adopting the trial in their respective setting.
