Clinical trials: sponsored by Unity Health Toronto
Social Determinants of Health, Poverty
Implementation and Impact of an Online Tool Used in Primary Care to Improve Income Security
We will evaluate the acceptability, feasibility and impact of an online tool that helps patients identify financial benefits that they are entitled to at six clinic sites over a three month period.
- Conditions
- Social Determinants of Health, Poverty, Social Isolation, Social Marginalization
- Trial name
- NCT02959866
- Testing
- online income tool
- Where
- 2 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 59 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Formularies
Differences Between Essential Medicines Lists in 135 Countries and Model List of Essential Medicines
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a model list of more than 400 medicines and recommends that each country adapt the list to its own circumstances. More than 100 countries have developed essential medicines lists.
- Trial name
- NCT03218189
- Testing
- Country characteristics
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 137 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Three Different Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Training Methods
The goal of this study is to compare three methods of teaching medical and nursing students basic life saving skills. The standard method will teach students how to push on the chest and to analyze the heart rhythm using a…
- Trial name
- BLSPilot (NCT01361919)
- Testing
- Feedback During CPR Training and Testing, No Feedback Group, Feedback during CPR Training Not Testing
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 298 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip
Assessing the Wear Rates of the ADM/MDM Hips Using 3D X-ray Analysis
A common complication post hip replacement is hip dislocation or hip instability which can lead to the hip implants being revised.
- Trial name
- NCT04019925
- Testing
- ADM/MDM hip
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Age-Related Macular Degeneration
The Role of Inflammation in AMD and Related Disorders
This prospective, non-therapeutic study will compare the relative utility of multiple ocular imaging modalities in the detection of the cellular immune response in patients with AMD and related disorders.
- Trial name
- NCT02588378
- Testing
- multi-modal cSLO imaging
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
HIV/AIDS
Decision Support Intervention Adapted for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for Adoption and Adherence for Black Canadians
Aim 1: Adapt Ottawa Decision Support Framework for the HIV PrEP decisional needs of African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) Canadian patients Aim 2.
- Trial name
- PrEPDSA (NCT03637244)
- Testing
- Decision Support Aid and PrEP for Black Canadians
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Clinical Decision-making
Review and Assessment of Network Meta-analyses for Knowledge Uptake Study
This randomized controlled trial will assess the interpretability of the rank-heat plot for presenting the results of network meta-analysis in comparison to SUCRA (surface under the cumulative ranking) plots which are suggested…
- Trial name
- RANK (NCT03283592)
- Testing
- Rank-Heat Plot, SUCRA Plot
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Arthroplasty Complications, Hip Arthritis
An Assessment of 4 Different Bearing Types in Hip Replacement Types to Analsye the Lowest Wear Rates of Polyethylene
The aim of the study is to assess the ideal bearing surfaces in hip replacement by comparing 4 different combinations. In a hip replacement this means what the head and the socket liner are made of.
- Trial name
- NCT03900039
- Testing
- Highly Cross Linked Polyethylene and oxidized zirconium femoral head
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Recall Phenomenon
Introducing a New EEG Based Index for Monitoring Recall Under Sedation
This is a single centre prospective observational study that will investigate a new EEG based index in recognizing recall of anesthesia in sedated patients. Awareness under general anesthesia is a dreadful complication.
- Trial name
- NCT03835156
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Hysterectomy for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
Laparoscopic Gynecology Curriculum for Residents
Gynecologists are currently using laparoscopy to perform many surgeries traditionally approached by laparotomy. The technical skills required for laparoscopic surgery are different than the skills required for laparotomy, causing…
- Trial name
- NCT01916343
- Testing
- Study Laparoscopic Curriculum
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 27 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
HIV, AIDS Virus
HIV Testing in Pregnant Women: Evaluating an Opt-Out Testing Strategy
Mother-to-child transmission of HIV is an important but preventable mode of infection. Prevention depends on identifying pregnant women infected with HIV and offering medications during pregnancy which can dramatically decrease…
- Conditions
- HIV, AIDS Virus, Pregnancy
- Trial name
- NCT00393302
- Testing
- HIV screening in pregnancy
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 1,074 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
HPV
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Knowledge and Attitudes and the Role of (SES) Socioeconomic Status and Ethnicity
This is a survey study to assess the vaccination knowledge and attitudes of women in an inner city Gynecology clinic. Results of this study will help determine which factors influence vaccination knowledge and attitudes.
- Trial name
- NCT01105000
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Hepatitis C, Pregnancy
Screening for Hepatitis C During Pregnancy at a Toronto Inner City Prenatal Clinic
The first part of this study will investigate the incidence of Hepatitis C in pregnant women attending an inner city health clinic in downtown Toronto.
- Trial name
- NCT00348660
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 653 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS
Bacterial Vaginosis Screening at IUD Insertion
A number of studies have shown a higher prevalence of BV among IUD users.13,,14 None, however, have screened women prior to inserting the IUD.
- Trial name
- NCT00802386
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 70 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Rubella, Vaccine
Rubella Susceptibility in Multiparous Women
The purpose of this study is to determine the reasons why multiparous women (women who are pregnant and have been pregnant before) might still be susceptible to rubella.
- Trial name
- NCT00401505
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 310 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
HIV
HIV Physician's Survey
This is a survey study to assess the variability in the current management of pregnancy, reproductive care and assisted reproductive technologies for HIV-positive individuals in Canada to estimate interest for further projects.
- Trial name
- NCT01104974
- Volunteers
- 167 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Cystocele
Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Screening Questionnaire
The purpose of this study is to determine the validity of a screening tool which has been designed to detect the presence or absence of lower urinary tract symptoms in the general female population.
- Trial name
- LUTS-2 (NCT01616810)
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
HIV Infections
Understanding HIV Susceptibility in the Female Genital Tract
There is great variability in susceptibility from one person to another, and less than one in a hundred sexual exposures to HIV results in infection.
- Trial name
- NCT03064425
- Testing
- Vaginal and blood sample collection
- Volunteers
- 98 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Influenza, Vaccine
Influenza Vaccine Postpartum Questionnaire
The purpose of this trial is to assess the knowledge and attitudes of post-partum women regarding influenza and the use of the influenza vaccine in pregnancy.
- Conditions
- Influenza, Vaccine, Pregnancy
- Trial name
- NCT00401700
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Influenza, Pregnancy
Influenza Vaccine in Pregnancy Part 2
Pregnant women have limited knowledge regarding influenza, its implications during pregnancy, and recommendations for vaccination during pregnancy.
- Trial name
- NCT00593970
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto