Academic clinical trial

Short description: Type of clinical trial

A typical area of academic clinical trials is the advancement and optimization of already existing therapies. Thus, academic clinical trials may for instance test how a combination of registered drugs may improve treatment outcomes; or they may apply registered treatments in additional, less frequent indications. Such research questions are not a primary focus of for-profit companies, and thus these trials are typically initiated by individual investigators or academic research organizations.

There are many different organizations which have an interest in academic clinical trials and facilitate or take part in their conduct. These organizations include:

* Hospitals, universities, researchers and institutions who view trials as a source of income and prestige, and receive private, charitable and governmental funding.
* Pharmaceutical or biotech companies who view the development and commercialization of treatments as their business.
* Regulators who wish to ensure treatments are safe and work effectively.
* Patients and patients' organizations and associations who want faster access to advanced treatments.

Academic clinical trials are run at academic sites, such as medical schools, academic hospitals, and universities; and non-academic sites which may be managed by so-called site management organizations (SMOs). Site management organizations are for-profit organizations which enlist and manage the physician practice sites that actually recruit and follow patients enrolled in clinical trials. In some cases, academic members participate in clinical trials as members of SMOs.

## See also

* Clinical investigator
* Clinical monitoring
* Clinical research associate
* Clinical site
* Clinical trial protocol
* Clinical trials publication
* EORTC (European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer)

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Clinical research and experimental design

Overview|

* Clinical trial
* Trial protocols
* Adaptive clinical trial
* Academic clinical trials
* Clinical study design

Controlled study
(EBM I to II-1)|

* Randomized controlled trial
* Scientific experiment
* Blind experiment
* Open-label trial

Observational study
(EBM II-2 to II-3)|

* Cross-sectional study vs. Longitudinal study, Ecological study
* Cohort study
* Retrospective
* Prospective
* Case–control study (Nested case–control study)
* Case series
* Case study
* Case report

Measures|

| Occurrence|

Incidence, Cumulative incidence, Prevalence, Point prevalence, Period prevalence

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Association|

Risk difference, Number needed to treat, Number needed to harm, Risk ratio, Relative risk reduction, Odds ratio, Hazard ratio

Population impact|

Attributable fraction among the exposed, Attributable fraction for the population, Preventable fraction among the unexposed, Preventable fraction for the population

Other|

Clinical endpoint, Virulence, Infectivity, Mortality rate, Morbidity, Case fatality rate, Specificity and sensitivity, Likelihood-ratios, Pre- and post-test probability

Trial/test types|

* In vitro
* In vivo
* Animal testing
* Animal testing on non-human primates
* First-in-man study
* Multicenter trial
* Seeding trial
* Vaccine trial

Analysis of clinical trials|

* Risk–benefit ratio
* Systematic review
* Replication
* Meta-analysis
* Intention-to-treat analysis

Interpretation of results|

* Selection bias
* Survivorship bias
* Correlation does not imply causation
* Null result

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* Glossary
* List of topics

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