Mentor: Padmashri Rastogi
Department: General Internal Medicine
Room number: B 333 c
Mail Code:111E
Phone number:214 857 0400
E-mail:Padmashri.rastogi@va.gov
Project title:
1.Magellan: Multicenter randomized, parallel group Efficacy superiority study
in hospitalized medically ill patients comparing rivaroxaban with enoxaparain
2. Bronchitis and Emphysema Advice and Training to Reduce Hospitalization (BREATH)
CSP # 560
Human subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable):
Animal subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable):
Project Type (patient-based research, animal-based research, or basic research; this characterization is only to permit a general classification for grouping similar types of projects) Pt based.
Brief Description of Project:
1.double blind, placebo controlled, randomized trial comparing rivaraxoban to
lovenox in medical acutely sick pts for reduction of thromboembolic disease.
2. In this va cooperative study, we are randomizing copd pts who had at least 1 admission for copd exacerbation in last 1 year to either control group or education group. Goal is to see if education about the disease and management makes a difference in course of disease.
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