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Understanding Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are important to ensure that people receive safe and effective treatments for their health conditions, from heart disease to headaches. They provide the means to develop new treatments that are more effective, safer than treatments already on the market or deliver the therapy via a different mechanism of action; they enable researchers to discover new therapeutic uses for currently available medications; and, they make it possible to develop innovative treatments for conditions that currently have no treatment.

If you have been a participant in a clinical trial before or you have just been invited to participate, the questions below provide some information about clinical trials and what is involved if you agree to participate in a clinical trial.

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Definitions of some words which may be used
• Blinded or Masked - The situation in which the study participant, the investigator, or both do not know which study treatment the participant is receiving to ensure unbiased evaluation of the study treatment.
• Clinical Trial - The process by which an investigational treatment is tested in human volunteers.
• Informed Consent - The process by which a potential study participant is provided with information about the study and treatment before deciding whether or not to participate in the trial.
• Investigational - A medication or treatment that has not been approved for use by the public.
• Placebo - An inactive substance that may be given to a percentage of the study participants in a clinical trial to assist in evaluating the effects of the active study treatment.
• Protocol - A document that states the rationale, objectives, statistical design, and methodology of the clinical trial and the conditions for performance and management.
• Randomization - The process by which study participants are randomly assigned to receive a particular study medication, dosage, or placebo.
• Side Effect - A symptom resulting from a treatment that was not the intended purpose of the treatment.

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Trial volunteer feedback

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