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Understanding Clinical Trials
Contents 1. Introduction to the drug development process 02 2. Understanding clinical trials 03 3. Design of clinical trials 04 4. Understanding clinical trial endpoints 05 Key endpoints 06 Other common endpoints 07 5. Understanding key statistical concepts 10 6. Common ways of presenting clinical trial results 15 7. Key questions to ask when evaluating the importance of a clinical trial 18 8. ...
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In a number of important clinical issues such as evaluation of the efficacy or effectiveness of therapeutic or preventive interventions as well as for comparing the harms of interventions, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) provide the highest levels of evidence, either directly or indirectly. It is obvious that critical appraisal of these studies to assess their validity and precision is of p...
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Evidence based medicine is very important for success of modern medicine. It is the ongoing process of using the most reliable evidence from clinical studies, scientific understanding and medical practice to make the best possible medical choice for patients. Evidence based medicine is how medicine advances and how we get improvements in life expectancy and quality of life. It not only identifi...
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Placebo response rates in clinical trials vary considerably and are observed frequently. For new drugs it can be difficult to prove effectiveness superior to placebo. It is unclear what contributes to improvement in the placebo groups. We wanted to clarify, what elements of clinical trials determine placebo variability. METHODS We analysed a representative sample of 141...
متن کاملInformed consent and research subject understanding of clinical trials.
CONTEXT Current evidence suggests many clinical trial participants have incomplete understanding of research objectives and methods. OBJECTIVE Determine consent standards compliance, satisfaction with facility and study staff, and research subject understanding of clinical trials. DESIGN Retrospective review of responses gathered when subjects were interviewed at the inception of clinical t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.309.6957.755