‘Adaptive’ clinical trials now being planned at U-M, other sites
Clinical Trials Wednesday, July 11th, 2012News-medical.net: Published on July 2, 2012 at 11:45 PM:
A new approach to testing medical treatment options could ensure that more patients get the most beneficial treatment for them – but still yield valuable research results that stand up to scientific scrutiny.
The approach tries to overcome a huge chicken-and-egg problem in medical research: Not enough people volunteer for studies of new treatments partly because researchers can’t promise the studies will help them — but without enough volunteers, researchers can’t study new treatment options.
But a new “adaptive” way of designing medical studies could help. In a recent paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and in several clinical trials now being planned at the University of Michigan Health System and partner institutions, adaptive design has come to the fore.Read more
