Clinical trials : what patients and healthy volunteers need to know / Lorna Speid.
- Speid, Lorna.
- Date:
- 2010
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Physical description
xiv, 186 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionQV771 2010S74cOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 019973416X
- 9780199734160