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How to Design a Multicenter Clinical Trial in Hepatic Encephalopathy
Lorenzo Ridola1, Silvia Nardelli2, Stefania Gioia2
1Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
The design of clinical trials on Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE) is not an easy task, in fact there are several issues related to the performance of clinical trials in HE that have impeded progress in the field, mainly because most of the studies on HE therapy were performed before the era of rigorous Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs). In this review we discuss the major problems affecting previously published trials on HE treatments aiming to provide evidences, suggestions and indications to prepare well designed RCTs in three different settings: (1) management of hospitalized patients with episodic HE; (2) secondary prophylaxis in patients following an episode of HE; and (3) management of minimal/covert HE.
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