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.
This course is part of the Clinical Trials Operations Specialization
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We recommend that learners have some familiarity with basic scientific, statistical, and management concepts.
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Evaluate and select clinical trial designs
Implement bias control measures
Randomize participants into groups
Define clinical trial outcomes
Skills you will gain
- Clinical Trial Design
- Randomization
- Ethics
- Masking
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Bias Control: Randomization and Masking
Trial Stages and Designs
Outcomes in Clinical Trials
Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials: Informed Consent
Recruitment and Retention
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- 5 stars71.73%
- 4 stars28.26%
TOP REVIEWS FROM DESIGN AND CONDUCT OF CLINICAL TRIALS
This was a very useful and interesting course. It would be nice if it was a video rather than just audio (for me the difference between 4 and 5 stars), but for content, it was really good.
Great overview of the key aspects of Clinical Trial design and conduct, a great introduction to the topic at the right level of detail.
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