Clinical Scorecard: Building for the Future

At a Glance

Key Highlights

• Starting an independent retina practice can involve challenges with business systems, equipment selection, vendor negotiations, office space, renovations, and staff recruitment.
• Clinical trials programs in private practice rely on industry relationships, strong physician-patient relationships, and well-trained, dedicated research staff.
• Integrating research into a practice requires operational planning because research patients can affect clinic workflow.
• The article discusses potential AI applications in target identification, protocol design, trial execution, and data interpretation.
• A peer-reviewed article discusses superiority and noninferiority trial designs and circumstances under which a single pivotal trial may support approval of a new medicine.
• Retina surgeons face multifactorial barriers to obtaining weekday and weekend operating room time, which the article describes as an impediment to timely retinal care.

Guideline-Based Recommendations

Diagnosis

Management

• The issue discusses operational planning for integrating research patients into clinic workflow.
• The issue discusses industry relationships, physician-patient relationships, and dedicated, well-trained research staff as elements of private-practice clinical trials programs.
• The editor calls for collaboration with health care professionals and policymakers to develop solutions to operating room access barriers.

Monitoring & Follow-up

Risks

• The source describes financial challenges related to office space and renovations, as well as difficulties recruiting staff, when starting an independent practice.
• The source describes limited operating room access as an impediment to timely retinal care.

Patient & Prescribing Data

Patients considered for participation in clinical trials; no specific disease or prescribing population is described.

The source provides no medication or treatment recommendations. It states that strong physician-patient relationships may encourage patients to consider participating in clinical trials.

Clinical Best Practices

• Dr. Paul Hahn discusses challenges in selecting electronic health record and practice management systems, choosing equipment, negotiating with vendors, securing office space, renovating, and recruiting staff when starting an independent practice.
• Elizabeth Cifers discusses operational planning to integrate research activities into clinic workflows.
• Samuel Minaker discusses industry relationships, physician-patient relationships, and dedicated, well-trained research staff in building a private-practice clinical trials program.
• The editor calls for collaboration with health care professionals and policymakers to address operating room access barriers.

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