A Handbook for Clinical Research in Traditional Medicine/Farah Ahmed and
Ghazala Javed. New Delhi, Farah Ahmed, 2005, 123 p., (pbk).
Contents: Preface. Foreword. 1. Introduction. 2. Nature and scope of clinical trials. 3. Literature review. 4. The research question. 5. Hypothesis. 6. Phases of a clinical trial. 7. Study protocol. 8. The investigator. 9. Study design. 10. Placebo. 11. Study drug manufacturing. 12. Regulatory and ethical issues in clinical trials. 13. Documentation. 14. Reporting results. 15. Getting the costs right. 16. Subject participation. 17. Glossary. Appendices: 1. World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. 2. Sample Informed Consent Forms. 3. Sample Protocol. 4. Table: Random sampling numbers.