Clinical Trials

Synopsis: Explains some of the main issues surrounding clinical trials, including sample size, randomisation, eradication of psychological patient effect, eradication of potential investigator biases, and appropriate statistical analysis. These are illustrated through three historical case studies - how the Reverend Edward Stone of Oxford ground up willow bark, a precursor of aspirin, to treat local peasants; a 20th-centrury trial that attempted to show the effect of free school milk on child development and the first use of antibiotics in the treatment of tuberculosis - showing how an understandinng of the importance of these factors has developed, using archive film, costume drama and 3-D computer graphics.
Series: Elements of Statistics, Course M246
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of production: 1995
Availability: Out of distribution
Notes: Combined on one tape/disk with ECOLOGICAL PREDICTIONS and REGRESSING TO QUALITY
Subjects: Mathematics; Medical sciences
Keywords: aspirin; child development; clinical trials; pharmacology; statistics; tuberculosis

Producer

Cast

David Hand
William Russell

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