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About the Course

Clinical trials are experiments designed to evaluate new interventions to prevent or treat disease in humans. The interventions evaluated can be drugs, devices (e.g., hearing aid), surgeries, behavioral interventions (e.g., smoking cessation program), community health programs (e.g. cancer screening programs) or health delivery systems (e.g., special care units for hospital admissions). We consider clinical trials experiments because the investigators rather than the patients or their doctors select the treatment the patients receive. Results from randomized clinical trials are usually considered the highest level of evidence for determining whether a treatment is effective because trials incorporates features to ensure that evaluation of the benefits and risks of treatments are objective and unbiased. The FDA requires that drugs or biologics (e.g., vaccines) are shown to be effective in clinical trials before they can be sold in the US. The course will explain the basic principles for design of randomized clinical trials and how they should be reported. In the first part of the course, students will be introduced to terminology used in clinical trials and the several common designs used for clinical trials, such as parallel and cross-over designs. We will also explain some of the mechanics of clinical trials, like randomization and blinding of treatment. In the second half of the course, we will explain how clinical trials are analyzed and interpreted. Finally, we will review the essential ethical consideration involved in conducting experiments on people....

Top reviews

VA

Nov 25, 2020

a very good introduction to clinical trials, it would be great if there is a second part of this course covering more topics in trial design and also the statistics in clinical trials.

B

Jun 28, 2022

T​he course covers what I consider an appropriate amount of information as an entry level course to clinical trials. i do like at the end you are given direction toward more learning resources.

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Jul 26, 2020

really enjoyed it

By Oscar S

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Jun 26, 2020

Concise and clear

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Jun 22, 2020

wonderful Course!

By Gustavo M

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Jul 22, 2019

Great experience!

By Caroline P

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Jan 23, 2018

Very good course!

By Aiswarya B

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Jun 30, 2017

Very informative!

By Mauricio C

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Nov 20, 2016

Very good course.

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Nov 22, 2023

Very good course

By Pulak T

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Nov 20, 2022

very informative

By Dr. ( A T A

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Dec 13, 2021

Simply presented

By SOUNDARARAJAN K

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Nov 28, 2021

Excellent course

By Shelly H

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Jan 10, 2021

simple and short

By Jigneshkumar P

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Dec 16, 2020

Excellent course

By Dr M E

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Dec 13, 2020

very informative

By Anna K

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Oct 15, 2020

Great course :-)

By Vivek

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Aug 21, 2020

Very much useful

By Anil R

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Jan 11, 2018

Excellent Course

By Gehad M T R

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Jul 8, 2017

wonderful course

By Ramesh C

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Feb 1, 2017

Excellent Course

By Omar M A A

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Jun 26, 2016

Excellent course

By Ms. A B

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Mar 29, 2021

Nice experience

By Erik A

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May 22, 2020

Excelent course

By محمود م

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Aug 27, 2019

Too long period

By Fernando A V

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Mar 1, 2018

Really useful !

By Fernando H D

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Oct 4, 2016

Amazing course!