Ms.Jodi Akin
Hawthorne Effect: Making Heart Failure trials accessible and convenient for everyone, everywhere.
Title: Hawthorne Effect: Making Heart Failure trials accessible and convenient for everyone, everywhere.
Biography
Biography: Ms.Jodi Akin
Abstract
Cardiological diseases represents a major growing health problem in the developed world. Clinical research is the cornerstone of continuous improvement in prevention and treatment of heart diseases. An average pivotal trial evaluating novel cardiovascular therapies can require more than10,000 visits and the collection of millions of data points. An important factor of success in clinical trials is the accessibility and diversity of participants and the quality and completeness of data. In order to collect all the data, the follow-up examinations are particularly relevant. A significant problem is that 79% published clinical trials have significant missing data resulting in issues of interpretability and generalizability of results. This causes incongruities of health burden to population which costs trillions and therefore the number of studies on new preventions and therapies in heart failure is kept low.