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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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Oct 14, 2022

it is a really good course, very informative and very useful.

By Paulina F U

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Feb 7, 2022

excellent course, focused in key concepts of clinical research

By Naila M

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Aug 24, 2019

Excellent course, I would recommend this to anyone interested.

By Yu-Wei R C

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Mar 29, 2016

Easy to read slide materials with concise presentation videos.

By Anna C

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Apr 12, 2021

Clear, useful and fulfilling! Thank you for this opportunity!

By Jesús F B D

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Jan 30, 2021

Excelent course! Very complete and clear, briefly recommended

By Ana T F

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Dec 6, 2020

It really helped me to improve my knowledge about this topic!

By Turgan S

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Jan 12, 2021

Excellent class. Learned a lot in a very contemporary topic.

By Hamid F

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Sep 10, 2021

Very useful course by the management of Dr. Janet Holbrook.

By Eric A S

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Aug 11, 2020

Very interesting material, clearly and concisely presented.

By Chintan B

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Jul 29, 2017

Best course and nicely posted all videos and the material.

By Cliff

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Jul 8, 2017

Great course, easy to understand. Good point of referral.

By Jonathan P

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Jul 20, 2023

Excellent Teaching and Teachers too!Thank you very much!

By Mohammed S

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Jun 17, 2022

Excellent course which enriched my knowledge in research

By jose p m c

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Aug 14, 2020

great course, anyone in the Health field should take it.

By Jude C N

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Jun 22, 2020

This was an excellent, well delivered course. Thank you.

By Ernest K

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Aug 16, 2016

Great course. I am happy that I could participate.

Ernest

By Dr G K

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Sep 3, 2020

Excellant presentation and crisp sharing of knowledge..

By Vinusha G

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Aug 11, 2020

it was very helpful to learn Design and clinical trails

By MADHU M A

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Aug 3, 2020

thank you for these lectures, it was really very useful

By anahita e

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Apr 21, 2020

Presented in an engaging and easy to understand format.

By Vikram S

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Jan 25, 2021

Very interesting to learn about Clinical trial designs

By Karo L

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Oct 29, 2017

Great course! Lots of useful knowledge and real cases.

By Krystyna

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Apr 27, 2021

Very refreshing. A great introduction to the subject.

By Mike C

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Aug 17, 2017

Excellent learning resource! Thanks JHU and coursera!