Clinical trials
What Clinical trials means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Compare groups receiving the drug with controls, using placebos where appropriate, to measure efficacy and refine dose.
Trials in humans that begin with healthy volunteers at low dose and later use patients who have the condition.
Trials carried out to find whether a drug is safe and then to find the optimum dose for the drug.
Topics that use Clinical trials
- Discovery and development of drugs (AQA GCSE)
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