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Table 5 Classification of Cl<strong>in</strong>ical Studies Accord<strong>in</strong>g to Objectives<br />

Type of study Objective of study Study examples<br />

Human • Assess tolerance<br />

pharmacology • Def<strong>in</strong>e/describe PK 1) <strong>and</strong> PD 2)<br />

• Dose-tolerance studies<br />

• S<strong>in</strong>gle <strong>and</strong> multiple dose PK <strong>and</strong>/or PD<br />

• Explore drug metabolism <strong>and</strong> drug studies<br />

<strong>in</strong>teractions<br />

• Drug <strong>in</strong>teraction studies<br />

• Estimate activity<br />

• ADME studies<br />

Therapeutic<br />

exploratory<br />

Therapeutic<br />

confirmatory<br />

Therapeutic<br />

use<br />

• Explore use for the targeted<br />

<strong>in</strong>dication<br />

• Dose-response exploration studies<br />

• Provide basis for confirmatory study<br />

design, endpo<strong>in</strong>ts, methodologies<br />

• Demonstrate/confirm efficacy<br />

• Establish safety profile<br />

� Provide an adequate basis for<br />

assess<strong>in</strong>g the benefit/risk<br />

relationship to support licens<strong>in</strong>g<br />

• Ref<strong>in</strong>e underst<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g of benefit/risk<br />

relationship <strong>in</strong> general or special<br />

populations <strong>and</strong>/or environments<br />

• Identify less common adverse<br />

reactions<br />

• Ref<strong>in</strong>e dos<strong>in</strong>g recommendation<br />

1) Pharmacok<strong>in</strong>etics<br />

2) Pharmacodynamics<br />

• Earliest studies of relatively short duration<br />

<strong>in</strong> well-def<strong>in</strong>ed narrow patient populations,<br />

us<strong>in</strong>g surrogate or pharmacological<br />

endpo<strong>in</strong>ts or cl<strong>in</strong>ical measures<br />

• Adequate, <strong>and</strong> well controlled studies to<br />

establish efficacy<br />

• Cl<strong>in</strong>ical safety studies<br />

• Large simple studies<br />

• Comparative effectiveness studies<br />

• Studies of mortality/morbidity outcomes<br />

• Large simple studies<br />

• Pharmacoeconomic studies<br />

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