Dose escalation

In Trial design & structure

Dose escalation is giving successively higher doses to successive small groups of participants, watching safety carefully at each step before moving up. It is the standard approach in early trials for finding a dose that is both tolerable and potentially effective. Pre-defined rules say when to escalate, when to pause, and when to stop.

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