Abstracts by keywords: healthcare
Many scientific innovations are developed in the field of basic research and then, based on the results of in-vitro research, are so solidly processed through small animal experiments that the path to applying these processes to humans is cleared. Further clinical research deals with measuring the effect of the therapeutic procedure and the side effects and at the same time lays the foundation for the approval procedures of the relevant authorities in North America and Europe. In order to be able to measure the effectiveness of therapeutic procedures, special patient groups are often put together in order to measure the effect of the new procedure/medication on a placebo procedure or on other, often older, medications or medical procedures/procedures in prospective randomized studies. A fundamental bias in these studies is often a strictly selected patient population that only slightly corresponds to the overall “real world” population addressed under field conditions.