What are the different types of clinical research studies?

Click on this video to hear a clinical trial recruiter explain the different types of clinical research studies.

There are many different types of clinical research studies. Some studies:

• Test medications in people with disease (treatment trials).
• Look for ways to prevent disease (prevention studies).
• Test better ways to identify a disease (diagnostic studies).
• Try to find the best way to detect a certain disease or health program (screening studies).
• Find ways to improve quality of life for those with long-lasting diseases (behavioral studies).
• Learn who gets a disease by researching how genes and illness may be related (genetic studies).
• Look to find patterns and causes of disease in groups of people (epidemiological studies).