Clinical trials

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a deprescribing tool can help in reducing prescriptions with potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs), in the Indian elderly population. The main question it aims to answer is- Can inappropriate polypharmacy in elderly patients be reduced through development and implementation of a deprescribing tool relevant to the Indian context? Researchers will compare control arm outcome parameters to see if there is a reduction in Proportion of prescriptions with at least one PIM ( Primary outcome parameter). Participating Prescribers ( Physicians) will be randomized to Control or Intervention arms. Particpating patients will not be randomized, and will receive routine consultation with a Physician who does not use the Deprescribing Tool (Control arm) or a prescriber who uses the Deprescribing tool ( Intervention Arm)

Preterm infants are born at less than 37 weeks of pregnancy. Sometimes a break or tear in the fluid filled bag that surrounds and protects the infant during pregnancy leads to an untimely birth. This state puts the infant at risk of serious condition called sepsis. Sepsis is a condition in which body responds inappropriately to an infection. Sepsis may progress to septic shock which can result in the loss of life. Doctors give antibiotics to treat sepsis. The goal of this research study is to find out: 1. Among neonates at risk of early-onset neonatal sepsis, whether a policy of administering antibiotics selectively to a subset of at-risk infants who later develop signs of sepsis is not inferior to administering antibiotics to all at-risk infants in the 1st week of life. 2. To find out if infants receiving selective antibiotics (as above) compared to those receiving antibiotics from birth (as above) require fewer antibiotic courses of 48 hours duration or more in the 1st week of life. 3. To find out whether infants receiving selective antibiotics (as above) compared to those receiving antibiotics from birth (as above) are significantly different with respect to a wide range of secondary outcomes (listed under "Outcomes").

Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is the most lethal form of extra pulmonary tuberculosis. This devastating disease kills almost a third of its sufferers and disables a significant proportion of the survivors. TBM poses one of the most difficult diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in modern clinical practice. High-quality robust clinical trials have made a considerable contribution to the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in the last four decades. However, evidence from such clinical trials is lacking in TBM and the treatment remains uncertain. There is a significant variation in the choice, dose and duration of drugs between countries, institutions and clinicians. Investigators propose a multi-centric open-label clinical trial to assess the efficacy of short-course anti-TB drugs with high dose rifampicin, and moxifloxacin along with conventional anti-TB drugs and adjuvant therapy with aspirin and corticosteroids. Controls will receive standard treatment as per national guidelines for TBM. The investigators also aim to assess the safety and tolerability of high-dose Rifampicin and Moxifloxacin and the Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacokinetics parameters of ATT (Rifampicin, INH, Moxifloxacin and Pyrazinamide) in CSF between the two groups