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Overview

Duration

4 hours

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Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials
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Skills you will learn
More about this course
  • In this course, you?ll learn how to design and carry out clinical trials
  • This course provides you and your team with essential skills to evaluate options, make good design choices, and implement them within your trial
  • You?ll learn to control for bias, randomize participants, mask treatments and outcomes, identify errors, develop and test hypotheses, and define appropriate outcomes
  • Finally, a trial without participants is no trial at all, so you?ll learn the guiding principles and develop the essential skills to ethically and conscientiously recruit, obtain consent from, and retain trial participants

Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials
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Curriculum

Bias Control: Randomization and Masking

Bias

Randomization

Practical Tips for Randomization

Primer: Intention-to-Treat Analysis Versus Per-Protocol Analysis

Other Ways to Address Confounding in Clinical Trials

Masking

Summary

Welcome to the Course

Bias Control - Randomization and Masking

Trial Stages and Designs

Trial Stages

Hypotheses

Design Components

Dose Finding

Parallel Design

Factorial Design

Crossover Design

Step-Wedge Design

Trial Phases and Designs

Outcomes in Clinical Trials

Introduction

Types of Outcomes

Influence of Outcomes on Study Design

Composite Outcomes and Surrogate Outcomes

Outcomes in Clinical Trials

Introduction to Informed Consent

Consent Document

Consent Process

Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials: Informed Consent

Recruitment and Retention

Principles and Background

Design and Site Selection

Planning for Recruitment

Real-World Recruitment Strategies

Monitoring and Retention

Closing Thoughts

Recruitment and Retention

Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials
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Admission Process

    Important Dates

    May 25, 2024
    Course Commencement Date

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