Clinical Trial Designs

Clinical Trial Designs

Clinical trial designs vary considerably, impacting study execution, patient recruitment, endpoints, and treatment delivery. Here’s a brief summary of some common designs:  

First-In-Human (FIH) Studies

These are the initial human trials for a new drug, procedure, or treatment, focusing primarily on safety.  

Cohort Studies

These observational studies follow a group of individuals over an extended period to assess risk factors associated with developing specific conditions.  

Case-Control Studies

These studies compare individuals with a particular disease or condition (cases) to similar individuals without the disease (controls) to identify potential risk factors.  

Further reading on clinical trial design

Clinical Trial Risk Tool approved for UK government use

Clinical Trial Risk Tool approved for UK government use

Fast Data Science are pleased to announce that the Clinical Trial Risk Tool, has been accepted as a supplier on the UK Government’s G-Cloud 15 framework. The G-Cloud 15 framework allows public sector bodies to buy cloud-based computing services such as AI, hosting, software and support directly without lengthy, costly traditional tender processes. What does the Clinical Trial Risk Tool do? The Clinical Trial Risk Tool helps users to analyse clinical trial protocols and documents.

Clinical trial cost benchmarking: white paper

Clinical trial cost benchmarking: white paper

Estimating the total cost of a clinical trial before it runs is challenging. Public data on past trial costs can be hard to come by, as many companies guard this information carefully. Trials in high income countries and low and middle income countries have very different costs. Upload your clinical trial protocol and create a cost benchmark with AI Protocol to cost benchmark The Clinical Trial Risk Tool uses AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to estimate the cost of a trial using the information contained in the clinical trial protocol.

Clinical trial cost benchmarking

Clinical trial cost benchmarking

You can download a white paper about clinical trial cost benchmarking here Estimating the total cost of a clinical trial before it runs is challenging. Public data on past trial costs can be hard to come by, as many companies guard this information carefully. Trials in high income countries and low and middle income countries have very different costs. Clinical trial costs are not normally distributed.[1] I took a dataset of just over 10,000 US-funded trials.