Principles and Practice of Clinical Trials

This  is a comprehensive major reference work for our SpringerReference  program covering clinical trials. Although the core of the Work will  focus on the design, analysis, and interpretation of scientific data  from clinical trials, a broad spectrum of clinical trial application  areas will be covered in detail. This is an important time to develop  such a Work, as drug safety and efficacy emphasizes the Clinical Trials  process. Because of an immense and  growing international disease  burden, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies continue to develop  new drugs. Clinical trials have also become extremely globalized in the  past 15 years, with over 225,000 international trials ongoing at this  point in time.

Principles in Practice of Clinical Trials is truly an interdisciplinary that will be divided into the following areas:

1) Clinical Trials Basic Perspectives

2) Regulation and Oversight

3) Basic Trial Designs

4) Advanced Trial Designs

5) Analysis

6) Trial Publication

7) Topics Related Specific Populations and Legal Aspects of Clinical Trials

The  Work is designed to be comprised of 175 chapters and approximately 2500  pages. The Work will be oriented like many of our SpringerReference  Handbooks, presenting detailed and comprehensive expository chapters on  broad subjects. The Editors are major figures in the field of clinical  trials, and both have written textbooks on the topic. There will also be  a slate of 7-8 renowned associate editors that will edit individual  sections of the Reference.