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Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials
  • Level Foundation
  • المدة 4 ساعات hours
  • الطبع بواسطة Johns Hopkins University
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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.

الوحدات

Welcome

    • 1 Readings
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  • Welcome to the Course

Bias Control: Randomization and Masking

    • 7 Videos
    • 1 Assignment
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  • Bias Control - Randomization and Masking

7 Videos

  • Bias
  • Randomization
  • Practical Tips for Randomization
  • Primer: Intention-to-Treat Analysis Versus Per-Protocol Analysis
  • Other Ways to Address Confounding in Clinical Trials
  • Masking
  • Summary

Trial Phases and Designs

    • 8 Videos
    • 1 Assignment
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  • Trial Phases and Designs

8 Videos

  • Trial Stages
  • Hypotheses
  • Design Components
  • Dose Finding
  • Parallel Design
  • Factorial Design
  • Crossover Design
  • Step-Wedge Design

Outcomes in Clinical Trials

    • 4 Videos
    • 1 Assignment
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  • Outcomes in Clinical Trials

4 Videos

  • Introduction
  • Types of Outcomes
  • Influence of Outcomes on Study Design
  • Composite Outcomes and Surrogate Outcomes

Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials: Informed Consent

    • 3 Videos
    • 1 Assignment
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  • Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials: Informed Consent

3 Videos

  • Introduction to Informed Consent
  • Consent Document
  • Consent Process

Recruitment and Retention

    • 5 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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  • Recruitment and Retention

5 Videos

  • Principles and Background
  • Design and Site Selection
  • Planning for Recruitment
  • Real-World Recruitment Strategies
  • Monitoring and Retention

1 Readings

  • Closing Thoughts

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Enhance your expertise in clinical trials with this foundational Health & Fitness course by Coursera, led by industry experts. Over 240 minutes, master the essential skills for designing, implementing, and evaluating trials. Learn to control bias, randomize participants, develop hypotheses, and ethically recruit and retain participants. Ideal for beginners, with flexible subscription options.

Janet Holbrook, PhD, MPH
Instructors

Janet Holbrook, PhD, MPH

Ann-Margret Ervin, PhD, MPH
Instructors

Ann-Margret Ervin, PhD, MPH

Stephan Ehrhardt, MD, MPH
Instructors

Stephan Ehrhardt, MD, MPH

Elizabeth A. Sugar, PhD
Instructors

Elizabeth A. Sugar, PhD