Clinical Trials

<p> <b>Comprehensive resource presenting methods essential in planning, designing, conducting, analyzing, and interpreting clinical trials</b> <p>The Fourth Edition of <i>Clinical Trials </i>builds on the text’s reputation as a straightforward, detailed, and authoritative presentation of quantitative methods for clinical trials, discussing principles of design for various types of clinical trials and elements of planning the experiment, assembling a study cohort, assessing data, and reporting results. <p>Each chapter contains an introduction and summary to reinforce key points. Discussion questions stimulate critical thinking and help readers understand how they can apply their newfound knowledge. <p>Written by a highly qualified author with significant experience in the field, the Fourth Edition of <i>Clinical Trials </i>approaches the topic with: <ul><li>Problems that may arise during a trial, and accompanying common sense solutions</li><li>Design alternatives for addressing many questions in therapeutic development</li><li>Statistical principles with new and provocative topics, such as generalizing results, operating characteristics, trial issues during the COVID-19 pandemic, and more</li><li>Alternative medicine, ethics, middle development, comparative studies, adaptive designs, and clinical trials using point of care data</li><li>Revamped exercise sets, updated and extensive references, new material on endpoints and the developmental pipeline, and revisions of numerous sections, tables, and figures</li></ul> <p>Standing out due to its accessible and broad coverage of statistical design methods which are the building blocks of clinical trials and medical research, <i>Clinical Trials </i>is an essential learning aid on the subject for undergraduate and graduate clinical trials courses.