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Principles and Practice of Clinical Research

  • 4th Edition - November 16, 2017
  • Editors: John I. Gallin, Frederick P Ognibene, Laura Lee Johnson
  • Language: English

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Principles and Practice of Clinical Research, Fourth Edition has been thoroughly revised to provide a comprehensive look at both the fundamental principles and expanding practice of clinical research. New to this edition of this highly regarded reference, authors have focused on examples that broadly reflect clinical research on a global scale while including a discussion of international regulations, studies, and implications.

In addition to key topics such as bioethics, clinical outcome data, cultural diversity, protocol guidelines, and “omic” platforms, this edition contains new chapters devoted to electronic health records and information resources for clinical researchers, as well as the many opportunities associated with big data. Covering a vast number of topics and practical advice for both novice and advanced clinical investigators, this book is a highly relevant and essential resource for all those involved in conducting research.

Key features

  • Features input from experts in the field dedicated to translating scientific research from bench to bedside and back
  • Provides expanded coverage of global clinical research
  • Contains hands-on, practical suggestions, illustrations, and examples throughout
  • Includes new chapters on the international regulation of drugs and biologics, the emergence of the important role of comparative effectiveness research and how to identify clinical risks and manage patient safety in a clinical research setting

Readership

Individuals engaged in clinical research, including both students and scientific researchers as well as physicians and members of allied health professions

Table of contents

1. A Historical Perspective on Clinical Research

Part I - Ethical, Regulatory and Legal Issues

2. Ethical Principles in Clinical Research

3. Integrity in Research: Principles for the Conduct of Research

4. Institutional Review Boards

5. The Regulation of Drugs and Biological Products by the Food and Drug Administration

6. International Regulation of Drugs and Biological Products

7. Data Management in Clinical Trials

8. Data and Safety Monitoring

9. Unanticipated Risk in Clinical Research

10. Legal Issues

11. Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research

12. Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs

13. The Role and Importance of Clinical Trials Registries

14. The Clinical Researcher and the Media

15. Clinical Research: A Patient Perspective

Part II - Biostatistics and Epidemiology

16. Design of Observational Studies

17. Design of Interventional Studies and Trials

18. Issues in Randomization

19. Hypothesis Testing

20. Power and Sample Size Calculations

21. An Introduction to Survival Analysis

22. Intermediate Topics in Biostatistics

23. Measures of Function and Health-Related Quality of Life

24. Large Clinical Trials and Registries: Clinical Research Institutes

25. Meta-analysis of Clinical Trials

26. Using Large Datasets for Population-based Health Research

27. Development and Conduct of Studies

Part III - Technology Transfer, Protocol Development, and Sources of Funding Support for Research

28. Overview of Technology Development and Technology Transfer

29. Writing a Protocol

30. Evaluating a Protocol Budget

31. Clinical Research Data: Characteristics, Representation, Storage and Retrieval

32. Management of Patient Samples and Specimens

33. Getting the Funding You Need to Support Your Research: Navigating the National Institutes of Health Peer Review Process

34. Clinical Research from the Industry Perspective

35. Philanthropy's Role in Advancing Biomedical Research

Part IV - Clinical Research Infrastructure

36. Managing Clinical Risk and Measuring Participants’ Perceptions of the Clinical Research Process

37. Clinical Pharmacology and its Role in Pharmaceutical Development

38. Career Paths in Clinical Research

39. Clinical Research Nursing: A New Domain of Practice

40. Issues and Challenges for Clinical Research in International Settings

41. The Role of Comparative Effectiveness Research

42. The Importance and Use of Electronic Health Records in Clinical Research

43. Informational Resources for the Clinical Researcher

Product details

About the editors

JG

John I. Gallin

Dr.John Gallin served as Director of the NIH Clinical Center (1994–2017) and later as NIH Associate Director for Clinical Research. He led the development of the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center and global training programs. His research focused on rare immune disorders, and he published extensively. Dr. Gallin was the founder of the Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research course at the NIH. Dr. Gallin passed away in 2024.

Affiliations and expertise
Chief Scientific Officer, Clinical Center, Associate Director for Clinical Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

FO

Frederick P Ognibene

Affiliations and expertise
MD, MCCM, FACP, Deputy Director, Educational Affairs and Strategic Partnerships, NIH Clinical Center and Director, Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education, NIH Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

LJ

Laura Lee Johnson

Laura Lee Johnson is a Division Director for the Office of Biostatistics at the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. She specializes in study design and endpoint development and spent over a decade at NIH overseeing clinical research programs.

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Director, Division of Biometrics III, FDA/CDER Office of Biostatistics, Silver Spring, MD, USA

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