Clinical Trials

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ISBN: 9780727915993 | 0727915991
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 12/21/2001

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This authoritative book discusses the use of clinical trials in health sciences including why they are important, how to do them and how they can be used most relevantly in health care for the future. The chapters are based on papers given at an Oxford seminar by leading figures in this field and the discussions that followed. The book will be of particular interest to clinical trialists and the pharmaceutical industry.

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Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Comparing like with like and the development of randomisation - goodbye anecdotes	p. 1
Why we need randomised controlled trials	p. 13
The importance of The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register to people doing and interpreting randomised trials	p. 25
What have we learned from 50 years of randomised trials for people with schizophrenia?	p. 33
Big is still beautiful: why we still need large simple trials	p. 42
Improving the quality, number and progress of randomised controlled trials	p. 57
The nuts and bolts of doing a clinical trial	p. 72
Building resources for randomised trials	p. 81
The role of data monitoring committees	p. 97
Bayesian perspectives on the ethics of trials	p. 105
"Empowering" patient choice about participation in trials?	p. 121
Index	p. 129
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