Data and Safety Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials

Download or read book Data and Safety Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials written by Jay Herson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-03-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the practical clinical and statistical issues that arise in pharmaceutical industry trials, this book summarizes the author’s experience in serving on many data monitoring committees (DMCs) and in heading up a contract research organization that provided statistical support to nearly seventy-five DMCs. It explains the difference in DMC operations between the pharmaceutical industry and National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored trials. Leading you through the types of reports for adverse events and lab values, the author presents the statistical requirements of data monitoring committees and gives advice on how statisticians can best interact with physician members of these committees. He also shows how physicians think differently about safety data than statisticians, proving that both views are needed.