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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....

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SS

Feb 25, 2023

awesome detailedoverviwe of clinical trials. it gave me a new insight. Improved chances of my job selection in the field. I improved on subject a lot during the course. Thank you teachers and coursera

TS

Jul 3, 2018

High quality course ! covering important areas and detailed lectures, more and better than a mere introduction. Congrats ! My only regret : I'd have liked to hear more about NI and equivalence trials

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By Mohammed M A

Sep 22, 2016

Good course but I hope if there are readings after each video to improve the understanding of information with more simplifying the content of ethics lesson.

By Panagiotis A

Sep 22, 2017

The courses were well structured and included a lot of information. It would be more interesting if there were more participation in the discussion fora

By Riona R

Jun 2, 2020

Great course. It helped me gather more knowledge on how trials are conducted and many ways through which results of the trial can be analyzed.

By Kanika

Jun 11, 2020

The course is very informative and good but I have not received a free of cost certificate. I have an only option of purchase certificate

By Kasey K

May 23, 2023

Lea Drye is the best of the two instructors. The other is monotone and just reads off the slides, her lecturing skills need improvement.

By Sofía B T

Mar 7, 2018

I liked it a lot, but I believe that assignments were easy, so I didn't needed to pay too much atention to the lectures to pass them.

By Saurabh K

Apr 13, 2020

Very properly organised coursework and lectures and up to date information and expert insights really help in understanding better.

By K T S

Jun 24, 2018

Good course for beginners. I would have liked it to be slightly longer - by a week or two - to cover more material. But still good.

By Suraya S

Jul 9, 2023

It was well thought off and provide important insights into clinical trial. I do wish for more examples thrown in and discussed.

By Xiomara G

Aug 26, 2019

This course was very interesting a little hard that I had to do optional lectures to understand better, I passed the evaluation.

By Hussini G

Jul 24, 2017

nice course .. excellent lecturer ... thanks very much i advice it for every one work in drug field especially in R&D department

By souro r

May 18, 2020

Excellent lessons teaching every aspect of clinical trial with multiple examples and explaining analysis of the data in-depth.

By Satish S

Apr 28, 2021

the course is very helpful who wanted to do carrier or interested clinical trails or health care. the course is theoretical.

By Federica G

Jun 14, 2022

the course is very well done providig all the basic knowlodege and material to understand and design a clinical trial

By Sissilx

Jul 7, 2016

Basically good. As I want to know the practical guidance of how to conduct a RCT, this course is not sufficient .

By Sumona K

May 23, 2021

The course has been really helpful for me understanding how to design, execute and interpret a clinical trial.

By Christabel P

Mar 30, 2021

it was a valuable course, though it couldn't cover everything but what was offered was sufficient for a start.

By Maria G

Jun 12, 2020

Good information. I would improve the presentation a bit, so the speakers aren't just reading their slides.

By Hemalatha K

May 1, 2020

This course has made me to dive into Clinical Research, which will surely help in building my career goals.

By Sangeetha S

Aug 15, 2020

It's my first course through online. I had a very good experience and able to complete with good grades.

By Cristobal M

Sep 21, 2022

Great course to get a first idea of how clinical trials are designed and the statistics behind them.

By DR.MAMATHA S S A

Apr 14, 2021

very useful course ,informative course on designing and interpretation of clinical trail

By Latika P

Nov 19, 2021

The course provided me with good basic knowledge of how clinical trials are conducted.

By Selen M

Oct 29, 2017

It was a nice introductory course to learn more about Clinical Trial Design subjects.

By 小熊Joe

Aug 19, 2020

Very good! It lays good basic foundation for the understanding of clinical trials