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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 26, 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 29, 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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May 17, 2020

Thorough and comprehensive

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Jan 1, 2021

systematic and organized

By Rafael M

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Feb 22, 2020

Awesome and clarifying.

By Mostafa R

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May 29, 2020

Very informative course

By Zhanwu C

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Aug 24, 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 26, 2016

Short but very useful!

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Jun 4, 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 21, 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 17, 2018

I enjoyed the course

By Abdullah M

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Sep 3, 2021

very goood

thank you

By Luis F A T

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Mar 15, 2021

Interesting course;

By Mari M

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Jul 20, 2020

Excelente course !!

By Maciej T

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Oct 31, 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 2, 2016

Very GOOD lesson!!

By Bryan W

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Jul 4, 2023

Excellent course.

By Simone E

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Nov 30, 2021

Excellent Course!

By Muskaan S

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Sep 25, 2021

I learned so much

By Ackrion M

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Apr 5, 2021

Excellent Course!