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SPM NEWS
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Society Executive Secretary: Ms Victoria Wood 9 Red Lion Court, London EC4A 3EF, UK Website: www.socpharmed.org
Editor: Martin W. Lunnon
1. Future Meetings
E-mail: [email protected]
The future meetings diary for the SPM is given in table I. For further details on any of these meetings please see the SPM website at www.socpharmed.org or contact: Victoria Wood, SPM Secretariat, 9 Red Lion Court, London EC4A 3EF, England (Tel: 020 7936 5900 or fax: 020 7936 5901) E-mail: [email protected] or Dr Donna Ellender, the Honorary Scientific Meetings Secretary of the SPM
2. News We are sorry to report that at short notice we had to cancel the meeting planned for 6 June 2008 – A statistical workshop: The Essence of Statistics in Clinical Trials at CCT, Barbican, London. This training was planned for anyone who would like to better understand basic statistical information for designing and analysing clinical trials. Even though the course was not able to take place as planned because of the small number of registered participants, we wish to
Table I. Society of Pharmaceutical Medicine future meetings Date
Meeting
Venue
Additional Information
20 Oct 2008
The Adrian Salter Memorial Lecture – “Is being a research-based pharmaceutical company in the 21st century still viable?” to be delivered by Dr John Patterson (Astra Zeneca)
Royal Society, London
Lecture followed by dinner
4 Sep 2008
Challenges in Oncology Clinical Trials – does the patient fit the trial?
Royal College of Subjects to be covered: trial design challenges, biostatistical Surgeons, Lincoln’s challenges and paediatric oncology trials. Inn Field, London
Feb 2009
Critical Path/Innovative Medicines Meeting
London
This will cover the initiatives from the US FDA and EMEA regarding innovative medicines and discuss overviews of both initiatives, going into detail about Innovative trial designs, innovative endpoints and pk/pd modelling. Venue and date to be confirmed
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thank the Course Trainers: Dr Kerry Gordon and Rachel Moate for the work they carried out to put together this workshop and we thank David Brown from the MHRA for his offer to attend as our guest speaker. We successfully held this course in 2007 and with the following content, expected to have the same success as our previous session. Topics expected to be covered includes: • motivation, need for statistics • populations and samples • uncertainty and variability • distributions • types of data • summarizing data (mean, median, standard deviation, standard errors, proportions) • hypothesis testing • type 1 and 2 errors • p-values
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confidence intervals superiority and non-inferiority sample size determination (power, delta) avoiding bias – randomisation and blinding populations – safety, ITT, PP basic statistical methods: t-test, chi-square test covariates and subgroups comparing treatments (differences in means, odds ratios, relative risk,
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