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Record W3092492583 · doi:10.1016/j.conctc.2020.100664

Evaluation of efficacy and safety of a novel lipogel containing diclofenac: A randomized, placebo controlled, double-blind clinical trial in patients with signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis

2020· article· en· W3092492583 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueContemporary Clinical Trials Communications · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicOsteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineOsteoarthritisDiclofenacWOMACPlaceboAdverse effectRandomized controlled trialDrugClinical trialInternal medicineSurgeryAnesthesiaPharmacologyAlternative medicine

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Effectiveness and safety of pharmaceuticals is the prime concern of every osteoarthritis (OA) treatment. Chronic administration of NSAIDs, especially in case of geriatrics, through oral route tend to compromise the patient's safety, whereas topical treatments are not found to be effective owing their poor ability to deliver drug molecules.Thus, the present study deals with a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial conducted on patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) for comparing the performance of a novel topical gel (liposomal gel) of diclofenac with a placebo and a marketed gel. METHODS: The patients were treated and evaluated for 6 weeks as per the Western Ontario McMaster Universities (WOMAC) Index for OA. Patients were also observed for any adverse events. All the results were analyzed statistically using Kruskal-Wallis test, followed by Student's t-test at p ≤ 0.05. RESULTS: Patients treated with liposomal gel showed statistically significantly improvements in treatment in comparison to the other tested formulations. All the treatments were found to be well tolerated with no report of adverse event. The results unequivocally demonstrated the superiority of the diclofenac liposomal gel, in the relieving the symptoms of OA of the knee, in comparison to placebo and marketed gel. CONCLUSION: From above results it was revealed that the drug in liposome have higher therapeutic potential. Thus, this can be a safe and effective option for the management of chronic OA especially for geriatric patients.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.032
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.028
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Randomized trial · Consensus signal: Randomized trial
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.055
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0320.028
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0050.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.377
GPT teacher head0.460
Teacher spread0.082 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it