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... the design decisions you need to make We show you how to conduct and monitor long-term clinical trials and, finally, how to review the results so you can be still more effective in the trials of ... A MANAGER’S GUIDE TO THE DESIGN AND CONDUCT OF CLINICAL TRIALS A MANAGER’S GUIDE TO THE DESIGN AND CONDUCT OF CLINICAL TRIALS Second Edition Phillip I Good, Ph.D A JOHN WILEY ... last moment to “fix” the problem The “fix” took months and was generally unsatisfactory, and all hope of profit vanished when the competitor was first to market I worked full time once, too, for a...

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... the design and conduct of clinical trials PLAN A Predesign Phase Form your design team (see Chapter 4) Your team’s first step should be to decide whether the study is actually worth performing and ... responsible for establishing milestones, making personnel asignments, and tracking progress Procrastinators need not apply A Manager’s Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials, by Phillip ... expected to provide assistance and perhaps some direction in recruiting investigators for the study The medical monitors will answer all questions from investigators as to the procedures to be followed...

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... anti-inflammatory should be compared to aspirin rather than placebo Second, utilize two physicians per patient, one to administer the intervention and examine the patient, the second to observe and inspect ... apparatus used to make A Manager’s Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials, by Phillip I Good Copyright ©2006 John Wiley & Sons, Inc CHAPTER TRIAL DESIGN 55 the measurements, and the criteria ... monitoring and maintaining the quality of the data Determined the necessary sample size and other aspects of the experimental design (See Chapter 6.) PART I PLAN • Specified how exceptions to the...

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... medical history, and social history data INITIAL SUBMISSION TO THE REGULATORY AGENCY Not surprisingly, the form of the protocol or investigational plan to be submitted to the regulatory agency ... physician) and how measurements are to be recorded (include units) If materials are to be sent to an outside laboratory, describe how samples are to be collected and provide packing and shipping ... addition to the design team To maintain the validity of a fractional factorial design one has to be able to assume that the effect of Treatment A is the same at all levels of the cofactor and in...

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... 30- to 50-page protocol in contrast to the 5- to 10-page protocols common in the academic area, and industry collection forms can range from 50 to 200 pages per patient, in contrast to the 5- to ... of these barriers to success can be addressed to a degree by careful planning and consistant monitoring of results For example, to overcome the unwillingness of physicians to refer patients, ... investigator and his staff, to remain committed throughout the study Ongoing Efforts None of the preceding can be relied upon to ensure compliance unless you continuously monitor the investigators and...

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... from the investigator to central storage Transfer of samples from investigator to external laboratory and of data from external laboratory to central storage Physician and laboratory manuals Recruitment ... supply on hand? and then go over points to be covered with your investigators and site coordinators, the final field tests of your questionnaires, data entry software and hardware, and uniform ... are on serve both to maintain hand morale and to forestall Procedure manuals are on problems with patients, the hand investigator, and the Instructions, containers, and investigator’s staff labels...

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... values Intermediate snapshots Protocol deviations Final results — Primary end points — Adverse events — Other secondary end points A Manager’s Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials, by ... independence and equal variances are satisfied Permutation tests based on the original observations are more powerful and should be used in preference to rank tests unless there is reason to believe ... close to However, because the variances are significantly different (as shown in the last row of the output) the results of the t-test shown in the second table cannot be relied on.44 Time -To- Event...

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... printed forms to electronic data capture) was to hire the right investigators and closely monitor their efforts, and to recruit only those patients who would make a positive contribution to the trials ... both on and off site, at least initially With the examples of diethylstilbesterol and silicon implants before us, and an increasingly litigious society, it is best to plan on an indefinite storage ... feels the need to return or, at the other extreme, is too sick to come into the physician’s office Noncompliant patients are also likely to skip visits You need to analyze the data to ensure that...

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... corresponding to each case report form (CRF) and automatically extracts data into SAS for analysis It’s easy to create custom views combining data from multiple CRFs, to query the data online, and to create ... progress and on-time performance from concept to completion, but you can monitor staff effectness and investigator timeless and quality across multiple projects and can use past performance to help ... investigators should be asked to participate in future trials? In short, the function of posttrial review is to elicit and document anything and everything that might be of assistance to you and your...

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Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 05:20

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Ngày tải lên: 07/06/2013, 01:26

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Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2013, 03:15

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