Welcome to the first participants on the CLEAR Study, July 2018
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Dr Damian Downey, Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at Queen's University Belfast, is conducting a new respiratory research study at the NICRF:
"CLEAR: A 2x2 factorial randomised open-label trial to determine the clinical and cost-effectiveness of hypertonic saline (HTS 6%) and carbocisteine for airway clearance versus usual care over 52 weeks in bronchiectasis"
Read more about the study here.