The University of Toledo Medical Center has begun recruiting patients to participate in a National Institutes of Health study seeking to identify which coronavirus treatments are most effective and deserve more attention in clinical trials.
The medical center is one of the first sites in the nation to enroll patients in the trial, known as the Big Effect Trial, which aims to have 40 sites with participants soon. The study will look to weed out ineffective treatments and expedite therapeutics that show significant benefits to patients struggling with the virus by testing hospitalized adults who need oxygen or mechanical ventilation and consent to participation.
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