San Diego Clinical Study

  Clinical trials are designed to test the safety and efficacy of a new product or intervention. They are conducted in a healthcare setting and usually require collaboration between researchers, doctors, and patients. A clinical trial is a research study involving humans in which volunteers are assigned to receive either the experimental treatment or the standard treatment or both. Clinical trials can also be randomised controlled trials (RCTs) because they typically compare two interventions to determine which one is more effective, safer, or cheaper. This can be done by assigning volunteers at random to different interventions without regard for their age, sex, race, socioeconomic status, etc., as long as they do not differ significantly from each other in these characteristics. Clinical trials are so called because the entire trial process takes place in a clinical setting (hospital). The type of research undertaken may depend on what phase of development the therapy is in - Phase I