A Clinical Trial Design for Evaluating Topical Antimicrobials in Chronic Wounds: The BLEU Trial
Chronic wound management is a global challenge. Millions of patients suffer from nonhealing ulcers and health systems are overwhelmed by the growing demand for treatment. Despite the prevalence of chronic wounds, the emergence of wound centers and specialized physicians is a recent phenomenon. Likew...
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| description | Chronic wound management is a global challenge. Millions of patients suffer from nonhealing ulcers and health systems are overwhelmed by the growing demand for treatment. Despite the prevalence of chronic wounds, the emergence of wound centers and specialized physicians is a recent phenomenon. Likewise, clinical research in wound healing is in its infancy. To date, many of the products in wound care have little or no clinical evidence. The field needs standardized clinical trial design, endpoints recognized by clinicians and payers, and improved overall clinical evidence. Wound healing is impeded by the presence of bacterial biofilms, which exist in most chronic wounds. It is not surprising that biofilm disruption is the focus of wound management and essential to the healing process. Multiple laboratory and preclinical studies demonstrate promising efficacy of several antimicrobials in treating biofilms; however, the field lacks in vivo clinical studies. In addition, a standardized trial design to evaluate efficacy of antimicrobials in chronic wounds does not exist. The advent of new diagnostic technologies, such as fluorescence imaging, has led to clinical trial designs that are reliable, easier to conduct, and cost efficient. The protocol presented here describes a randomized controlled double-blind trial designed to evaluate antiseptics in chronic wounds. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4e937974c8be40efbc72136d572cfa432023-11-19T17:05:43ZengMDPI AGLife2075-17292023-09-011310198310.3390/life13101983A Clinical Trial Design for Evaluating Topical Antimicrobials in Chronic Wounds: The BLEU TrialThomas Serena0Emily King1Theresa Boyer2Khristina Harrell3SerenaGroup Research Foundation, Cambridge, MA 02140, USASerenaGroup Research Foundation, Cambridge, MA 02140, USASerenaGroup Research Foundation, Cambridge, MA 02140, USASerenaGroup Research Foundation, Cambridge, MA 02140, USAChronic wound management is a global challenge. Millions of patients suffer from nonhealing ulcers and health systems are overwhelmed by the growing demand for treatment. Despite the prevalence of chronic wounds, the emergence of wound centers and specialized physicians is a recent phenomenon. Likewise, clinical research in wound healing is in its infancy. To date, many of the products in wound care have little or no clinical evidence. The field needs standardized clinical trial design, endpoints recognized by clinicians and payers, and improved overall clinical evidence. Wound healing is impeded by the presence of bacterial biofilms, which exist in most chronic wounds. It is not surprising that biofilm disruption is the focus of wound management and essential to the healing process. Multiple laboratory and preclinical studies demonstrate promising efficacy of several antimicrobials in treating biofilms; however, the field lacks in vivo clinical studies. In addition, a standardized trial design to evaluate efficacy of antimicrobials in chronic wounds does not exist. The advent of new diagnostic technologies, such as fluorescence imaging, has led to clinical trial designs that are reliable, easier to conduct, and cost efficient. The protocol presented here describes a randomized controlled double-blind trial designed to evaluate antiseptics in chronic wounds.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/13/10/1983chronic woundstopical antimicrobialsclinical trial designsurrogate endpointsfluorescence imaging |
| spellingShingle | Thomas Serena Emily King Theresa Boyer Khristina Harrell A Clinical Trial Design for Evaluating Topical Antimicrobials in Chronic Wounds: The BLEU Trial Life chronic wounds topical antimicrobials clinical trial design surrogate endpoints fluorescence imaging |
| title | A Clinical Trial Design for Evaluating Topical Antimicrobials in Chronic Wounds: The BLEU Trial |
| title_full | A Clinical Trial Design for Evaluating Topical Antimicrobials in Chronic Wounds: The BLEU Trial |
| title_fullStr | A Clinical Trial Design for Evaluating Topical Antimicrobials in Chronic Wounds: The BLEU Trial |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Clinical Trial Design for Evaluating Topical Antimicrobials in Chronic Wounds: The BLEU Trial |
| title_short | A Clinical Trial Design for Evaluating Topical Antimicrobials in Chronic Wounds: The BLEU Trial |
| title_sort | clinical trial design for evaluating topical antimicrobials in chronic wounds the bleu trial |
| topic | chronic wounds topical antimicrobials clinical trial design surrogate endpoints fluorescence imaging |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/13/10/1983 |
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