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Monthly Archives: February 2024

A smartphone app for the self-management of Perthes’ Disease – a blog for Rare Disease Day 2024

28/02/2024 Adam Galloway

For Rare Disease Day 2024, Adam Galloway discusses the NON-STOP trial, registered at the ISRCTN registry, which evaluates the acceptability and usability of a smartphone app to support the non-surgical treatment of Perthes’ disease.

Prescriptions aren’t one-way tickets: how to stop what we started

08/02/2024 Dave Taylor and Jackie Martin-Kerry

In this blog, Dave Taylor and Jackie Martin-Kerry discuss the CHARMER (CompreHensive geriAtRician led MEdication Review) trial, registered at the ISRCTN registry. The trial, which began on 1 February 2024, will be the largest trial within the Ageing Specialty of the Clinical Research Network’s portfolio across England, involving data from over 20,000 older inpatients across 24 hospitals. Internationally, it will be the largest deprescribing trial.

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