Faculty of Science

Objectives

To use rigorous methodology to assess the efficacy of new drugs, or of new modalities of care for infectious diseases.

Contents

Selection of subjects, allocation of subjects to treatment groups, studies without comparison, studies with comparison (historical control, simultaneous non randomized control), randomization, stratified randomization, data collection on subjects, treatment (assigned and received), outcome, prognostic profile at entry, crossover, Factorial design; Randomized trials