Research Catalog

Title

Clinical trials : what patients and healthy volunteers need to know / Lorna Speid.

Author

Speid, Lorna

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Details

Description

xiv, 186 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Clinical Trials: What Patients and Volunteers Need to Know demystifies the process, focusing on the process of drug development, and the clinical trial itself. The author provides important questions to ask those running a clinical trial, key definitions and terms for a participant to know and understand, as well as anecdotes illustrating the clinical trial process. The author also grapples with the idea of "informed consent," providing mechanisms for patients and volunteers to feel fully informed before signing up for the trial.--From publisher description.

Subject

• Human Experimentation
• Patient Selection
• Clinical Trials as Topic
• Clinical trials > Popular works

Genre/Form

• Popular Work
• Popular works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Why I wrote this book -- Understanding clinical trials -- Oversight of clinical trials -- Ethical conduct of clinical trials -- Assessing risks versus benefits -- Other issues to consider as a research subject -- The role of the clinical investigator -- The drug development process -- Gene transfer clinical research and other experimental approaches -- Clinical trials involving the elderly -- Clinical trials involving children -- Clinical trials involving rare or orphan diseases -- Clinical trials involving disabled and vulnerable groups.

ISBN

• 9780199734160
• 019973416X

LCCN

^^2010009154

OCLC

• 466361848
• SCSB-10079948

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library