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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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By Suha A

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Aug 29, 2021

Nice ,clear course

By Sumit S

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Dec 20, 2017

Excellent course.

By Rahma m

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Dec 26, 2018

Excellent course

By FERNANDO C

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Sep 30, 2018

It was amagazin

By Qier W

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Sep 20, 2020

Great teacher!

By SHIYONA N

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Aug 22, 2020

Usefull course

By Muhammed E M

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Aug 5, 2020

Good course !

By Xiaomin W

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Dec 23, 2020

Very good!

By natalia r

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Jan 20, 2020

Very good!

By ALFREDO H

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Oct 29, 2019

excelente

By AHMED F

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Jun 26, 2022

Od ne

By Adeola A

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Jan 6, 2017

great

By VENKATESHWARAN T

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Jul 15, 2024

Good

By barah k a

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Mar 10, 2017

good

By Soujanya K

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Jul 15, 2022

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By Marcus C

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Jul 16, 2017

Was alright, but felt a bit short of content. Some more interactive assignments, questionnaires and examples would be nice.

By Robert W

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Aug 28, 2019

for me personally the level was to basic. Having said that, it gives a good overview on clinical trial designs.

By Bruna d A P

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Mar 27, 2020

The content was very well prepared, but i think most of the Topics can not be applie

By Marilia C

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Sep 1, 2017

Good course as an introduction of the topic.

By Xin W

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Jan 3, 2017

presentation is poor, not very engaging

By Nicolas C

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Jun 11, 2017

Interesting, but a little elementary.

By Sandeep C

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Mar 15, 2020

english is not too formal.

By Akshaya B

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Nov 16, 2022

Really Good

By huangchenghui

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Feb 1, 2022

视频看不了

By Meghal G

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Oct 29, 2022

This course will benefit from updating information and more engaging presentation rather than regurgitation of slide content