Section outline

  • Lecture 2: Blinding, Intervention and Controls

    Definition and importance of blinding; strategies if the study can’t be blinded; strategies to evaluate blinding; considerations when choosing the intervention; multiple interventions; importance of the control or placebo; advantages and disadvantages of equivalence trials.

    Please watch Dr. Grady's lecture from 2020.

    Faculty: Deborah Grady

    Location (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL

    • Lecture Recording (watch prior to Thursday):

    • Blinding & Interventions File
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    • Live Large Group Session (Access restricted to registered students): Thursday, 8:45am - 10:15am PT.  Brief formal review of lecture followed by question and answer discussion. Recorded lecture should be viewed prior to this session. 
    • Q&A Session for Lecture 2 File
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    • 1/14/2021 Live Session Media Resource
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    • Required Reading:

      Designing Clinical Research (4th Edition), Chapter 10, pages 147-149.

    • Noseworthy H, et al. The impact of blinding on the results of a randomized, placebo-controlled multiple sclerosis clinical trial. Neurology 1994 44: 16-20. File
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    • Kirkley A, et al. A randomized trial of arthroscopic surgery for osteoarthritis of the knee. N Engl J Med. 2008 Sep 11;359(11):1097-107. File
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    • Optional Reading:

      Fundamentals of Clinical Trials (5th Edition), Chapter 7.

    • Assignment & Due Dates for this week:

              1) Homework: Complete homework assignment #2 and submit to TAs by Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 5pm at UCSFClinicalTrials2021@gmail.com

              2) Protocol: Work on protocol assignment #1 and submit to your section leader by Thursday, January 21, 2021, 12pm. Please scroll above for sample protocols.


    • Homework Assignment for lecture #2 File
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    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Homework Assignment #2 - Answer Key File