Spilker's Guide to Clinical Trials on CD-Rom (CD-ROM)

This CD-ROM contains Spilker's "Guide to Clinical Trials" and "Patient Recruitment in Clinical Trials". This version contains 11 chapters of new material not available in either text, covering: extrapolation of preclinical safety data to humans; dose-response relationships in clinical trials; improving the standards of clinical trials and clinical trials publications; how to conduct more clinical trials with fewer resources; clinical trials come of age; worldwide compatibility of diagnostic criteria; qualifications necessary to interpret clinical data; incorporating benefit to risk determinations in clinical trials and medicine development; external influences on protocol design; collecting and interpreting life events in clinical trials; normalcy, supernormalcy and subnormalcy. Utilizing the OmniSearch software this CD-ROM enables the user to go straight to the required information. The program offers a full range of search techniques such as Boolean (and, or, not), fielded searching, hypertext searching, proximity searching, synonym searching, table of contents browsing and global index access. In addition, the program provides several formats for displaying and outputting information - search results can be ranked and sorted by prevelance, printouts can be titled and retrieved citations can be marked and saved for printing and downloading. The contents include original chapters in "Guide to Clinical Trials" and "Patient Recruitment in Clinical Trials". In addition there are 11 new chapters with information not available in either text: extrapolation of preclinical safety data to humans; dose-response relationships in clinical trails; improving the standards of clinical trials and clinical trials publications; how to conduct more clinical trials with fewer resources; clinical trials come of age; worldwide compatibility of diagnostic criteria; qualifications necessary to interpret clinical data; incorporating benefit to risk determinations in clinical trials and medicine development; external influences on protocol design; collecting and interpreting life events data in clinical trails; normalcy, supernormalcy and subnormalcy. The price quoted is for individual users. A separate price for institutional users is availble from Lippincott-Raven.