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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

OS

Sep 18, 2019

This course would be most useful to the participant if pursued within a short time-frame, of maximum of 6 weeks. Both lecturers were clear and good communicators. I would take more of their classes.

TH

May 30, 2018

I was able to learn a lot from this course. The lectures and the sequence of the presentations were logical and clear to understand. I will definitely recommend this course for my colleagues.

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May 16, 2020

Thorough and comprehensive

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Dec 31, 2020

systematic and organized

By Rafael M

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Feb 21, 2020

Awesome and clarifying.

By Mostafa R

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May 28, 2020

Very informative course

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Aug 23, 2018

This is a great course!

By ANDREA C d M

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Oct 8, 2020

was hard but neccesary

By David B

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Feb 25, 2018

Very clearly presented

By Jelle S

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Dec 25, 2016

Short but very useful!

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Jun 3, 2021

great course content

By Vivianrain L

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Sep 5, 2019

VERY HELPFUL CONTENT.

By Rene C

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Oct 20, 2018

el curso es excelente

By Panagiotis K

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Nov 29, 2020

Excellent course!!!!

By Dickens O

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Jan 16, 2018

I enjoyed the course

By Abdullah M

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Sep 2, 2021

very goood

thank you

By Luis F A T

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Mar 14, 2021

Interesting course;

By Mari M

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Jul 20, 2020

Excelente course !!

By Maciej T

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Oct 30, 2017

Excellent, engaging

By Geo J D

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Feb 5, 2021

good course indeed

By Emmanuel O

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Aug 4, 2020

Outstanding course

By Twaib S

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Jan 16, 2019

i like this course

By Yu-Pu B W

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Dec 1, 2016

Very GOOD lesson!!

By Bryan W

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Jul 3, 2023

Excellent course.

By Simone E

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Nov 29, 2021

Excellent Course!

By Muskaan S

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Sep 24, 2021

I learned so much

By Ackrion M

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Apr 4, 2021

Excellent Course!