Improving Healthcare Through Clinical Research from FutureLearn

Topics Covered

The fundamental principles of the scientific process, and their importance in ensuring that clinical research delivers accurate information and answers.
The origins of clinical trials, and how an understanding of how to conduct clinical research has developed over time.
How modern clinical trials are conducted, the importance of minimising bias, and the role of techniques such as randomisation and control, and placebos and blinding.
The impact of the digital revolution and big data on how clinical trials are conducted, and the opportunities and challenges these present.
The importance of ensuring that clinical research is ethical and the key principles that are essential to ensuring that clinical trials are set up and conducted in an ethically sound manner.
The role that respect has to play in clinical research and how we can ensure that research is carried out in a way that is respectful to participants.
How clinical research is regulated in the United Kingdom and internationally.
The importance of informed consent, the key concepts associated with gaining valid consent from research participants, and the process for gaining informed consent.
How the results of research are put into practice. How the results of research are reported and communicated to the wider world, and the importance of analysing critically media reporting of clinical research.
The ways in which clinical research is funded.
Future directions, opportunities and challenges for clinical research.

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