Improving Healthcare Through Clinical Research
Find out how medical treatments are discovered, tested and evaluated to improve healthcare for all with this online course from the University of Leeds.
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Everything we do in healthcare has to be discovered and thoroughly tested before it can be put into practice. In this course, you will explore clinical research – its challenges and its huge benefits to modern healthcare. You will work through case studies and examine how research contributes to the treatment of major diseases, such as cancer and dementia, examining the process of conducting research and the ethical questions raised. You will learn how members of a research team, academics and participants in clinical research all contribute to this process of discovery.
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What topics will you cover?
- 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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