It’s just a phase

Format: Lessons

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Language/s: English

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Resource Link: View the Lesson (requires Adobe Flash Player to run)

Target Audience: Postgraduate and professional

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Undergraduate

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Short Description:

A resource explaining the differences between different trial phases.

Key Concepts addressed:

• 1-1 Treatments can harm
• 1-10 Hope may lead to unrealistic expectations
• 2-1 Treatments should be compared fairly
• 2-8 Consider all of the relevant fair comparisons
• 2-13 Average measures of effects can be misleading

Details

This resource tells the story of a day in the life of a real clinical trial and explains the important differences between different trial phases. You will learn about statistical power, surrogate outcomes and how findings from trials included in specialized trial registers.

After using this resource, you should be able to:

• Describe the purpose of a specialized trial register such as ALOIS
• Differentiate between clinical trial phases
• Explain the purpose of power in designing clinical trials

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