Clinical Trials:

Clinical trials are experiments or observations done in clinical research. Such prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human participants are designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel vaccines, drugs, dietary choices, dietary supplements, and medical devices) and known interventions that warrant further study and comparison. Clinical trials generate data on safety and efficacy. They are conducted only after they have received health authority/ethics committee approval in the country where approval of the therapy is sought. These authorities are responsible for vetting the risk/benefit ratio of the trial—their approval does not mean the therapy is 'safe' or effective, only that the trial may be conducted.

Description: Clinical trials are an important part of medicine and healthcare today, deciding which treatments we use to treat patients. Anyone involved in healthcare today must know the basics of running and interpreting clinical trial data. Written in an easy-to-understand style by authors who have considerable expertise and experience in both academia and industry, Principles and Practice of Clinical Trial Medicine covers all of the basics of clinical trials, from legal and ethical issues to statistics, to patient recruitment and reporting results. Theory and Practice of Clinical Trials: The modern era of therapeutics in cancer is dominated by clinical data arising from cancer clinical trials. This reliance on clinical trial methodology to generate scientific data on the value of interventions not only has been adopted by the oncology community but is true for those working with all chronic diseases. In the United States, efforts to find interventions for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are principally relying on clinical trials. Applications for drug approval to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can only be made on the basis of scientific evidence generated by clinical trials. The development and widespread acceptance of clinical trials is one of the major conceptual advances in experimental therapeutics made during the latter half of the twentieth century. A clinical trial is defined as an experiment on humans being carried out in order to evaluate one or more potentially beneficial therapies. The clinical investigator is assumed to have control of both the therapies being evaluated and the patient population to which these therapies are administered. Clinical Trials and Practice are experiments done in clinical research. Clinical trials are research studies that explore the new way of screening, prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of a disease in human beings.

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