Paediatric medicine development requires careful planning and decision making. Legislation in the EU mandates that paediatric medicine development should occur early in the medicine development process.
When women of childbearing potential are included in clinical trials, safety precautions must be taken in order to avoid the unintentional exposure of an embryo or fetus to the...
The process of enrolling in clinical trials is carefully regulated, as is the way in which sponsors advertise clinical trials to prospective participants. Patients are screened and must give...
Blinding is a procedure in which one or more parties in a trial are kept unaware of which treatments participants have received during a clinical trial.
Clinical trial results are recorded in a clinical study report (CSR) in a prescribed manner; however, access to the CSR is usually limited. Summarised information from the CSR comes...
Clinical trial results are statistically analysed in terms of demographics, efficacy, and safety. Different types of clinical trial may warrant different interpretations of trial results.
Human medical research is conducted according to strict principles of ethics. These principles have been developed over time, in reaction to various events in human history, and continue to...