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1. VA Comparative Effectiveness Research Robert M Califf
Vice Chancellor for Clinical Resesarch—Duke University
2. The VA as a “closed loop” systemThe VA as a collaborator in a national systemThe VA as a collaborator in a global system
3. The Cycle of Quality: Generating Evidence to Inform Policy
4. Building a National CTSA Consortium When fully implemented by 2011, the initiative is expected to provide a total of about $500 million annually to 60 research institutions. When fully implemented by 2011, the initiative is expected to provide a total of about $500 million annually to 60 research institutions.
5. Sharing a Common Vision
6. Goals for the CTSA Consortium The CTSA consortium has the following five goals:
Building National Clinical and Translational Research Capability
Training and Career Development of Clinical and Translational Scientists
Enhancing Consortium-Wide Collaborations
Enhancing the Health of our Communities and the Nation
Encouraging T1 Translational Research
7. Clinical and Genomic Profiling to Prediction Outcome and Treatment Response
9. Personal Health Record
10. The Clinical Trials System Too slow
Too expensive
Doesn’t answer many critical questions
Otherwise its great
12. Clinical Trial Cost Estimates
13. Data gathered by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (Tufts CSDD) >90% of all clinical trials delayed due to over-ambitious timelines and difficulty with patient enrollment
Top reasons for delays in trials:
Protracted budget negotiations
Slow IRB review and approval
Poor patient recruitment and retention
Estimated 20% of PIs fail to enroll a single patient and 30% under-enroll in a given trial
Between 2000 and 2005 38% of PIs who participated in clinical trials in a given year did not return in a subsequent year through 2008
Up from 26% in previous 5 years
14. Patient Recruitment and Retention
16. Putting It All Together Clinical research is a benefit for Americans.
- With comparative effectiveness it is an explicit policy goal.
We need to stop pushing this work offshore.
We need to modernize the infrastructure for clinical research (electronic systems under ARRA).
We need to modernize the administrative infrastructure for this work:
Human subjects protection
Contracting
Compliance
17. A collaborative effort to find solutions In light of these issues the U.S. FDA’s Office of Critical Path Programs and Duke University joined together as founding members of a public-private partnership:
The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI)
All stakeholders are involved in this initiative including government, industry, academia, patient advocates, professional societies, and others
www.trialstransformation.org