U.12 EXPERIMENTING WITH HUMANS: CLINICAL TRIALS Flashcards
What is the common problem of the experimentation with humasn?
Tension between therapeutic experiments and clinical experiments
The objective of clinical trials is to…
detect differences between compared drug/therapeutic strategies and eliminate non-real differences.
To acomplish the objetive of clinical trials you have to control:
- Sample size
- Sample selection
- Masking
The variables involve in clinical trials can be…
quantitative or qualitative
The variability of the main variable is a…
larger sample, greater variability.
In the sample selection all patients should be…
equally likely to belong to one group or an other.
Types of sample selection:
- Simple
- By blocks
- Stratified (by categories)
Masking is ….
concealing the treatment to avoid influence its evaluation.
A placebo is….
a product with no therapeutic effect yo compare it with another therapeutically active product.
The placebo effect is the …
improvement, of a patient symtons that has been taking the placebo.
Types of masking?
- Open (unmasked)
- Single blind (patient)
- Double blind (patient+researcher)
- Triple blind (patient+researcher+analyst)
- Blind for thrid parties (analyst)
Types of clinical trials according to its design?
- Not controlled
- Controlled
A not controlled clinical trial is the one with…
no comparison or historical comparison.
A controlled clinical trial is the one with…
comparison between groups
Types of controlled clinical trials?
- Parallel design
- Crossed design
- Factorial design
Tyoes of clinical trials depending on the phase of the study?
- Phase I
- Phase II
- Phase III
- Phase IV
The phase I is the study on…
humans
The objective of the phase I is to prove the…
safety and tolerability
In the phase I the doses are…
very low and the increase
The phase I is done in….
healthy volunteers
What is the size of the sample of the phase I?
Small