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Clinical Trial Design Issues and Options for the Study of Rare Diseases

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The Basic Issue• To test efficacy, need a control group.• Choices: literature control, historical controls,concurrent controls, patients as own controls.• Typical design is to recruit/assign to a treatmentgroup/observe each group <strong>and</strong> compareoutcomes.• BuBut what if you could design astudy using <strong>the</strong> same patient morethan once?

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