Principles and Practice of Clinical Trial Medicine [Hardcover]

Clinical trials are an important part of medicine and healthcare today, deciding which treatments we use to treat patients. Anyone involved in healthcare today must know the basics of running and interpreting clinical trial data. Written in an easy-to-understand style by authors who have considerable expertise and experience in both academia and industry, Principles and Practice of Clinical Trial Medicine covers all of the basics of clinical trials, from legal and ethical issues to statistics, to patient recruitment and reporting results.

• Jargon-free writing style enables those with less experience to run their own clinical trials and interpret data
• Book contains an ideal mix of theory and practice so researchers will understand both the rationale and logistics to clinical trial medicine
• Expert authorship whose experience includes running clinical trials in an academic as well as industry settings
• Numerous illustrations reinforce and elucidate key concepts and add to the book's overall pedagogy

A concise overview of the essential aspects of clinical research and trial design. Presents the principles and practical details needed to design, conduct, and interpret the results on clinical trials, as well as how to take a drug from initial development to approval stage.Richard Chin is the CEO of Institute for OneWorld Health, the first U.S. nonprofit pharmaceutical company and Associate Professor at UCSF School of Medicine. OneWorld Health develops affordable drugs for neglected patients in the developing world. Dr. Chin has extensive expertise in drug development, including over 45 INDs and almost a dozen drug registrations. His previous roles include CEO of a NASDAQ listed company, Senior Vice President of Global Development at Elan, and Head of Clinical Research for the Biotherapeutics Unit at Genentech. He was named by Businesl³±