Posted by yxibow on December 10, 2007, at 1:55:25
In reply to Re: check out this lamotrigine blurb, posted by linkadge on December 9, 2007, at 20:28:04
> The more trials that are made available, the more acurate predictions can become.
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> No number of clinical trials can give a definitive representation of true drug effect, but as such trials increase, we can approach such a statistic.
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> LinkadgeThere's only a certain number of people who can be practically recruited for a final trial, and it usually runs around 4,000 for a phase III drug that is trying to get the total confidence of the agencies. They're contracted to centers in all sorts of places, central and eastern europe, asia, south america, etc... its often a global effort.
Its through enough statistics predictions that you get an aggregate of millions of patient-hours of exposure from I-IV.
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