Academic clinical trials
Academic Clinical Trials
Academic Clinical Trials (pronunciation: /əˈkædəmɪk ˈklɪnɪkəl traɪəlz/) are research studies conducted in a university or college setting, often by medical school faculty, to test the safety and effectiveness of new medical treatments or drugs.
Etymology
The term "Academic Clinical Trials" is derived from the words "academic", meaning pertaining to an educational institution, and "clinical trials", which refer to the testing of new medical treatments or drugs.
Related Terms
- Clinical Trials: These are research studies performed in people that are aimed at evaluating a medical, surgical, or behavioral intervention. They are the primary way that researchers find out if a new treatment, like a new drug or diet or medical device (for example, a pacemaker) is safe and effective in people.
- Randomized Controlled Trials: A type of scientific experiment which aims to reduce bias when testing a new treatment. The people participating in the trial are randomly allocated to either the group receiving the treatment under investigation or to a group receiving standard treatment (or placebo treatment) as the control.
- Double-Blind Study: This is a type of study in which both the researchers and the participants are unaware of which group the participants are in, whether they are in the group receiving the treatment under investigation or are in the control group receiving a placebo.
- Placebo: A substance that has no therapeutic effect, used as a control in testing new drugs.
- Informed Consent: The process in which a health care provider educates a patient about the risks, benefits, and alternatives of a given procedure or intervention.
- Ethics Committee: A body responsible for ensuring that medical experimentation and human subject research are carried out in an ethical manner according to prescribed standards and regulations.
- Protocol: A detailed plan of a scientific or medical experiment, treatment, or procedure.
- Investigational New Drug: A drug that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in clinical trials but not yet approved for general use.
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Academic clinical trials
- Wikipedia's article - Academic clinical trials
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