Method - Efficient and effective conduct of clinical trials

临床试验帮助医生和患者做出更好的医疗保健决策。试验进行的方式、收集和检查数据的方式会影响试验的成本，也会直接影响我们对试验结果的信心。不幸的是，我们用来进行试验的许多方法并不是基于高质量的证据。我们的目标是找到更好的、基于证据的、更有效地运行试验的方法。试验也可能非常昂贵，所以我们正在寻找使其更具成本效益的方法。例如，我们想了解在哪里以及如何使用患者的常规医疗记录来更快、更便宜地获取试验数据，以及在哪些地方这是不可能的。学术组织经常研究疾病的新疗法，而这些疗法并不是开发这种新疗法的公司优先考虑的。因此，我们需要更好的方法，让学术机构进行的试验结果可以被监管机构使用，以加快这些新疗法被批准和许可用于这些疾病患者的速度。

Clinical trials help doctors and patients to make better healthcare decisions. The way that a trial is done and the data collected and checked effects the cost of the trial and also directly effects the confidence we can have in its results. Unfortunately, many of the methods that we use to run trials are not based on high quality evidence. We aim to find better and evidenced based ways of running trials more effectively. Trials can also be very expensive, so we are looking at ways we can make them more cost-effective. For example, we want to understand where and how a patients routine medical records can be used to get quicker and cheaper access to data for trials and where this is not possible. Academic organisations often investigate new treatments in diseases which are not a priority for the company that has developed that new treatment. We therefore need better ways in which the results of trials being done by academic organisations can be used by regulatory authorities to improve the speed at which these new treatments can be approved and licensed for use in patients with these diseases.