Clinical trials: sponsored by McMaster University
Delivery of Health Care, Smoking Cessation
Increasing Smoking Cessation Counselling in Primary Care Using a Chronic Disease Management System
This pilot study will determine the feasibility of studying a new smoking cessation management module in an existing chronic disease management system.
- Trial name
- NCT01004276
- Testing
- New, improved smoking cessation management module
- Where
- 2 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- McMaster University
Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
Does Routine Screening for Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Health Care Settings do More Good Than Harm?
The purpose of the research is to evaluate whether routine screening for woman abuse in health care settings, as compared to no screening, does more good than harm.
- Trial name
- NCT00182468
- Testing
- Screening for intimate partner violence
- Where
- 28 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 5,681 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- McMaster University
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Chronic Gastrointestinal Sequelae of an Acute Outbreak of Bacterial Gastroenteritis in Walkerton Ontario
Acute Bacterial dysentery leads to chronic symptoms of disturbed bowel habit in a minority of individuals. This condition known as post infectious irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS) remains poorly understood.
- Trial name
- NCT00235326
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 4,561 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- McMaster University
Alzheimer's Disease
A Pilot Study of Inflammatory Markers in Alzheimer's Disease
The purpose of this study is to examine the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with Alzheimer's disease for biomarkers of inflammation and their response to the antibiotics doxycycline and rifampin.
- Trial name
- NCT00715858
- Testing
- doxycycline, rifampin
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 21 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- McMaster University