research method

PA 550 Research Methods answer question 2:

When it comes to medical research then it is very important to be very caution and professional too. In this research we will make sure to use the latest tools and consider the latest studies made in this field. It will be very dangerous to try in such situation without strong facts.

1- The first step is to match and select the sample before starting and that is going to be using group clustering, this method will help us to have patients with similar level on the stage of the cancer to be in one group. The stages will be considered to be four groups as per the following; 1) Early stage where the patients just discovered the cancer and is not yet expanded to the full lung (up to 20%). 2) Middle stage and this group will have patients with lung cancer but the cancer already expanded to big part of the lung (up to 50%). 3) Advance stage where cancer is already reached more than 80% of the lung. 4) Very advance group where cancer is almost 100% of the lung is affected by cancer. We will have three experiment groups which will be groups 1, 2, and group 3. Group number 4 will be the control group since the cancer already covered 100% of the lung.

2- The time frame for the study will be 12 months divided to four courses each course will be three month. During these courses we will measure the effect of the new drug on the patients based on 24 measurement stage for the all period of the experiment and that’s mean every patient will have to be tested once every two weeks. It is very important to keep detailed record of the improvement or the negative affect of the new drug very closely. What will be measured is the development of the cancer and monitors any other side effects to any part of the body.

3- We will assure study validity by using the most advance technology in the field of medical and will also keep very detailed record for each patient containing details of the drug doses and the amount and also the side effects happened during the use of this new drug. All these details will help us and other research centers to consider and will help us to ensure reliability of the experiment if we decided to do it again on other patient.

4- We will consult the most famous and latest reports from other research centers that are approved from the FDA and all other studies made for similar drug use. We will study and analyze these reports and consider the results of them to help us start with high level of knowledge and confident of what to expect to get from this drug.

5- In regard to those patients who may drop or die during the study will make sure to exclude the record and results of those patients to make sure we have the maximum accurate result and outcome from this study.

6- The probability level we will use is going to be P≤ .01

It is very important to have this probability level used in our study because it is life threatening case and the life of people is very important and this is the accepted level by the FDA to accept the official use of our new drug.