PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Penicillin, Class Action, Edwin Jarvis
10 Jan 2018
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Next test will be on chapter 6 and 7. Look at reading list on bright space. Clinical trial: a scienti c study designed to systematically test a medical intervention in humans. Blinding: a procedure for ensuring that subjects and researchers do not know which interventions the subjects receive. Randomization: the assigning of subjects randomly to both experimental and control groups. Phase 1 trial - tests the drug in a few people for safety and adverse reactions and ascertains safe and unsafe doses (non therapeutic) Phase 2 trial - investigators give the drug t larger groups of subjects to get a preliminary indication of its e ectiveness and to do more assessments of safety. Phase 3 trial - researchers try to nally establish whether the drug is e ective and determine how it comes to other treatments , and learn the safest way to use it.
