What is a Landmark Trial?
A short course about landmark trials in clinical endocrinology
Landmark clinical trials are practice-changing and highly influential studies that either caused a paradigm shift in medical practice or clarified previously unclear answers to critical questions in medical management.
Additional attributes of landmark clinical trials include the following
– Long term relevance in the medical community
– Frequently cited in academic texts and guidelines
– Challenged conventional medical management, leading to a change in practice, i.e., “practice-changing.”
