Success in Academic Surgery: Clinical Trials

1. Building Your Clinical Trial Research Team
Jessica E. Gosnell

2. Clinical Trials: Ensuring Quality and Standardization
Marquita Decker, Lee Gravatt Wilke

3. Statistics: Setting the Stage
Sandra L. Wong

4. Clinical Trials: Handling the Data
Christina E. Bailey, George J. Chang

5. Data Safety Monitoring Boards
Kamran Idrees, Fei Ye, Yu Shyr, Nipun Merchant

6. Planning for Data Monitoring and Audits
Lisa Jacobs

7. The Budget
Shuab Omer, Lorraine D. Cornwell, Faisal G. Bakaeen

8. Regulatory Considerations in Human Subjects Research
H. Richard Alexander, Edward Sausville, Shannon Decker

9. Publishing a Clinical Trial
Babak J. Orandi, Julie A. Freischlag, Mahmoud Malas

10. Device Versus Drug Clinical Trials: Similarities and Important Differences
T. Clark Gamblin, William S. Ragalie

11. Defining the Study Cohort: Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
Lisa M. McElroy, Daniela P. Ladner

12. The History of Clinical Trials
Sanziana Roman

13. Ethics of Clinical Trials
Jukes P. Namm, Peter Angelos

14. Trial Design: Overview of Study Designs (Phase I, II, III, IV, Factorial Design)
Brigid K. Killelea, Anees B. Chagpar

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Medicine/Public Health, general, Surgery, Medical Education