North West HTMR

找出一种疗法是否比另一种疗法更好的最佳方法是进行一项名为随机对照试验的研究研究，在这项研究中，治疗被随机分配给患者，就像掷骰子来决定一样。像这样的研究并不是没有困难。例如，当药物第一次试验时，研究应该分阶段进行，每个阶段都要进行评估。随着治疗进入研究的后期阶段，研究人员必须选择哪些结果是最重要的来衡量，这是一个理想的决定，通过考虑临床和患者的角度。这项提议旨在创建一个世界级的中心，在那里可以调查临床试验社区面临的此类问题，总体目标是通过改善有关医疗保健决策所依据的证据来改善患者护理。

The best method for finding out whether one treatment is better than another is to perform a research study known as a randomised controlled trial, in which treatments are allocated to patients at random, rather like throwing a dice to decide. Studies like this are not without their difficulties. For example, when drugs are first trialled, the research should proceed in stages with evaluation at each stage. As treatments move into the later phases of study, researchers must choose which outcomes are most important to measure, a decision ideally arrived at through consideration of both the clinical and patient perspective. This proposal is to create a world-class centre where issues such as these facing the clinical trials community can be investigated, the overall aim being to improve patient care by improving the evidence on which decisions about healthcare are based.