Clinical trials: sponsored by Boston Medical Center
Food Insecurity
Health-Related Social Needs Food Boxes Delivery Program
Nourishing At Home: Health-Related Social Needs Food Boxes Delivery Program is a pilot intervention study evaluating whether home delivery of medically tailored food boxes can reduce food insecurity and improve health outcomes…
- Trial name
- HRSN (NCT07643909)
- Testing
- Monthly food staples and fresh produce, Standard of care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Cervical Cancer Screening, Cervical Cancer
Development of Systems and Education for Cervical Cancer Prevention (DOSE-CC)
Cervical cancer disproportionately impacts those who have not accessed screening or follow-up. Universal screening has the potential to decrease the overall burden of cervical cancer.
- Trial name
- DOSE-CC (NCT07226037)
- Testing
- DOSE-CC Intervention: Educational Sessions
- Volunteers
- 80,000 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Glaucoma, Intraocular Pressure
Glaucoma Drop Aids Part 2
Glaucoma medications are vital to disease management and prevention of further loss of vision as over time glaucoma will lead to irreversible blindness.
- Trial name
- NCT06806332
- Testing
- Nanodropper
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Cardiovascular Health
HERE: Health Empowerment and Resources After Pregnancy
This study will examine whether a patient navigation program can help improve long-term heart health among people who experienced high blood pressure disorders during pregnancy at Boston Medical Center (BMC).
- Trial name
- HERE (NCT07701148)
- Testing
- Longitudinal patient navigation, Standard care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Parent-Child Relations, Parenting
CenteringParenting Clinical Intervention on Kindergarten Readiness in Early Childhood
Disparities in health begin in early childhood. Early life experiences influence brain development and have significant implications on future health and developmental outcomes.
- Conditions
- Parent-Child Relations, Parenting, Child Development, Child Behavior
- Trial name
- NCT03641092
- Testing
- CenteringParenting Intervention, Routine Well Child Care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Orthopedic Disorders
Right-Size Clinic Visits Using Memora Platform for PROMIS
Developing novel methods of patient communication is crucial in providing value-based care to orthopedic patients. Healthcare technology platforms have been developed to improve patient communication methods particularly for the…
- Trial name
- NCT04441567
- Testing
- Right-size clinic visits
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 3,000 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
End Stage Renal Disease
Intravascular Ultrasound in Patients With End-stage Renal Disease on Dialysis
Hemodialysis represents a life line of patients with end stage renal disease, who are commonly maintained on hemodialysis through catheters.
- Trial name
- IVUS in ESRD (NCT04399941)
- Testing
- Venography, Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), Image processing
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Overdose
A Universal Primary Care Based Intervention to Reduce Youth Overdose Risk Aim 3
Between 2015 and 2019, overdose deaths translated to 1.25 million years of life lost among adolescents and young adults (youth) aged 12 to 24 years, and the percent change in fatal overdose rates among adolescents ages 14 to 18…
- Trial name
- NCT07797933
- Testing
- Brief youth overdose prevention education, Usual Standard of Care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 648 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Heart Failure
Heart Failure Self Care Education in Rwanda
In Rwanda, patients with heart failure may have low health education about their condition. Heart failure care requires active patient involvement.
- Trial name
- NCT07722468
- Testing
- HF Education
- Where
- Rwanda
- Volunteers
- 400 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Brain Injury, Acute
Non-Invasive Monitoring Methods in Patients With Acute Brain Injury
Life-threatening mass effect (LTME) arises when brain swelling displaces or compresses crucial midline structures subsequent to acute brain injuries (ABIs) like traumatic brain injury (TBI), ischemic stroke (IS), and…
- Trial name
- NIMABI (NCT06504238)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 720 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Nausea, Postoperative, Vomiting, Postoperative
Carbohydrate Fluids and Post Operative Nausea and Vomiting
This study is a prospective randomized clinical controlled trial testing the effects of pre-operative >50 g pre-operative carbohydrate fluids (apple juice) on a patient's post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV) incidence and…
- Trial name
- PONV (NCT06481670)
- Testing
- Carbohydrate drink
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Opioid Use Disorder
Sustaining Recovery for People on Opioid Agonist Treatment With Conversational Agents
This study aims to improve retention in buprenorphine treatment, a medication used for opioid use disorder, through the use of a smartphone-delivered recovery support intervention.
- Trial name
- SARA RCT (NCT06732596)
- Testing
- Embodied conversational agent (ECA), Technical support, Additional ECA messages
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Hypertension, Hypertension Complicated
Improving Hypertension Control in Safety-Net Settings: The Boston Hypertension Equity Alliance in Treatment
High blood pressure (BP) or hypertension (HTN) affects over 100 million individuals in the US, increasing the risk of adverse outcomes, including stroke, myocardial infarction (MI), and chronic kidney disease (CKD).
- Trial name
- BHEAT (NCT06948838)
- Testing
- RBPM, MII
- Where
- 7 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 16,895 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Cardiac Pacing
Cardiac Anodal Biphasic Pacing
The goal of this study is to test a new pacing method called anodal biphasic pacing (ABP) to determine if this pacing works as well-or better-than current pacing methods.
- Trial name
- ABP (NCT07173777)
- Testing
- Cardiac Waveform Generator
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 108 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Critical Limb Ischemia, Malnutrition
Nutrition in Patient With Critical Limb Ischemia
A prospective pilot study examining nutritional supplements among vascular surgery patients with Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI). CLI patients have a high rate of malnutrition and has the potential to benefit greatly from…
- Conditions
- Critical Limb Ischemia, Malnutrition, Nutritional Supplements
- Trial name
- NutriVasc (NCT03529019)
- Testing
- Ensure Surgery Immunonutrition Shake, Ensure Enlive Advanced Nutrition Shake
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Congestive Heart Failure, Volume Overload
Boston Medical Center Ultrasound Decongestion Study in Heart Failure
The purpose of this study is to analyze the utility of a novel five-point ultrasound as a predictor of volume overload in diverse patients who are admitted with volume overload/congestive heart failure (CHF) exacerbation at…
- Trial name
- BUDS-HF (NCT07096726)
- Testing
- Five-point ultrasound, Standard of care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Infertility
Implementing a Pilot Patient Navigator Program to Improve Access to Infertility Care for Underserved Patients
This investigators will conduct a pilot study investigating the implementation of an infertility Patient Navigator (PN) program to mitigate challenges for underserved individuals at Boston Medical Center (BMC) seeking infertility…
- Trial name
- NCT06481319
- Testing
- Infertility Patient Navigator
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 28 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Neck Muscle Issue
BoTox Into the Sternocleidomastoid Muscles (SCM)
Botulinum toxin injections have been used both in the face and neck for many years. However, injection into the sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM) has only been done to treat neck spasms.
- Trial name
- NCT06903975
- Testing
- prabotulinumtoxinA-xvfs
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Prosthetic-joint Infection, Dysbiosis
Probiotics in the Prevention of Recurrent Prosthetic Joint Infection of the Hip and Knee
Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is one of the most devastating complications following total joint arthroplasty (TJA) of the hip and knee. Standard of care (SOC) treatment includes surgery and antimicrobials.
- Trial name
- NCT06636669
- Testing
- Probiotic, Standard of care
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 152 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
HIV Infections, Opioid Use Disorder
Infectious Disease (ID) Testing OUtreach in Carceral Hubs
This pilot feasibility study represents part 3 of a larger R61 study, where the investigators will follow a cohort about their experiences with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing.
- Trial name
- ID-TOUCH (NCT06679751)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 59 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center