CTN Webinar: The Value of Common Data Elements.
CTN Webinar: The Value of Common Data Elements. – This 2-hour webinar, produced by the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) Clinical Coordinating Center for CTN members and the public, discusses the value and principles that enable cross-study comparison through standardized biological measures, data collection forms, and assessment instruments, as recommended in the CTN’s Treatment Effect & Assessment Measures (TEAM) Task Force Outcomes. The discussion covers factors enabling cross-study analyses, implementing and maintaining standardized measures and forms, combining self-report instruments with biological measures to capture all facets of drug use, and how to maximize the value of the CTN Public Data Share web site. The target audience includes experienced clinical research staff in the CTN or the public. Presented by Dennis M. Donovan, PhD (Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute, UW, PN Node), Paul VanVeldhuisen, PhD (EMMES Corporation), and Paul G. Wakim, PhD (Center for the Clinical Trials Network, NIDA). For more resources related to this webinar, as well as other webinars in this series, visit: ctndisseminationlibrary.org
MPs call for urgent decisions on new drug pricing regime
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The panel is calling for: – an assessment of the outcomes for those patients whose treatment has been paid for by the Cancer Drugs Fund; – evidence of beneficial outcomes which should inform the new VBP scheme and applied to treatments for conditions …
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Treating drug addiction as illness is the way forward
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We are, apparently, “ideally placed” to move the debate on to how best to treat people who have drug problems via “public health principles”. But how? It is clear to me as a GP that there are different types of drug use. Many people use legal highs …
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Steve Stockman, GOP Congressman, Compares Obama To Saddam Hussein …
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In a Sunday sermon, Pastor Sam Morris of Old Paths Baptist Church in Tennessee linked the shooting to a public school system that focused on "humanism" and scientific principles, which in turn may have led Lanza to believe that he was God and could "go …
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