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CTU website launches new methodology section
CTU website launches new methodology
section
8 February 2012
The MRC CTU's website has launched its new
methodology section to showcase the
breadth of the Unit's work in this area. There are three broad
themes: applied statistical methodology, trial conduct methodology
and meta-analysis methodology.
Our clinical trials
and meta-analyses aim to identify the
best treatments or interventions. Our observational
studies help us understand patterns of disease and the effects
of treatments on a larger scale and over longer time periods.
However, trials have become more complex and take a long time to
run, and there is little evidence to support some of the approaches
used in the day-to-day conduct of trials. Also, the analytical
methods currently available do not always allow us to make the best
or most reliable use of the data from our clinical studies.
Therefore, the aim of our methodological
research is to investigate how best to carry out clinical studies,
by improving their design, conduct and analysis, and in doing so
help to produce more reliable results with the ultimate aim of
improving patients' outcomes.
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