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This course is part of Clinical Trials Operations Specialization
Instructors: Janet Holbrook, PhD, MPH
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Evaluate and select clinical trial designs
Implement bias control measures
Randomize participants into groups
Define clinical trial outcomes
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In this course, you’ll learn how to design and carry out clinical trials. Each design choice has implications for the quality and validity of your results. 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.
Every trial design depends on the skilled application of core design elements. In this module, you’ll learn about various approaches to bias control as well as simple, restricted, and adaptive approaches to trial participant randomization. Finally, you’ll learn to protect the validity of your results with masking procedures that conceal treatments and outcomes as necessary from the study team, participants, and outcomes assessors.
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Each trial is conducted in stages, so it’s critical that you and your team are prepared to make sound design choices for each stage. That includes developing and evaluating research questions and hypotheses, selecting among various design types, and identifying errors.
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Well-defined outcomes are the foundation of any good trial design. The outcomes that you and your team establish at the beginning of the design process will influence other design decisions such as trial type, randomization, masking, sample size, and more.
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Trials participants must be treated with the utmost respect, and that begins with careful attention to informed consent. In this module, you’ll learn about the personnel, documents, terminology, and practices that go into planning and implementing ethically sound informed consent procedures within your trial.
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A trial without participants is no trial at all. In this module, you’ll learn how to ethically and effectively recruit and retain the participants you need for your trial and strategically select the clinical sites where you’ll conduct your research.
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Reviewed on Jul 7, 2023
Really lets you know the basics of clinical trials. A very nice course for beginners
Reviewed on Mar 13, 2024
Great course. Very clear examples and presentations.
Reviewed on Nov 16, 2023
wonderful course who work upon clinical research field
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