Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials
Johns Hopkins University
In this course, youâll learn how to design and carry out clinical trials. Each design choice has implications for the quality and validity of your results. This course provides you and your team with essential skills to evaluate options, make good design choices, and implement them within your trial. Youâll learn to control for bias, randomize participants, mask treatments and outcomes, identify errors, develop and test hypotheses, and define appropriate outcomes. Finally, a trial without partic
About this Course
In this course, youâll learn how to design and carry out clinical trials. Each design choice has implications for the quality and validity of your results. This course provides you and your team with essential skills to evaluate options, make good design choices, and implement them within your trial. Youâll learn to control for bias, randomize participants, mask treatments and outcomes, identify errors, develop and test hypotheses, and define appropriate outcomes. Finally, a trial without partic
What You'll Learn
- Eâvaluate and select clinical trial designs
- Iâmplement bias control measures
- Râandomize participants into groups
- Dâefine clinical trial outcomes
Instructors
Janet Holbrook, PhD, MPH
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Ann-Margret Ervin, PhD, MPH
Epidemiology (primary); Ophthalmology (joint)
Stephan Ehrhardt, MD, MPH
Department of Epidemiology
Elizabeth A. Sugar, PhD
Department of Biostatistics