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Although the success of a research study will depend on good design, the success of a research project will rely on good planning. This may initially seem like a case of splitting hairs over lexical semantics. However, it should be clear that good project planning in a general sense is desirable to help ensure that an endeavour involving multiple individuals, tasks and complex inter-dependencies produces an overall outcome to justify the substantial investment of time and effort. With projects that are also clinical research studies in medicine and healthcare, there are the added ethical and legal obligations which are necessarily associated with clinical studies involving human beings, whether interventional or observational.
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Culliford, D. (2022). Planning. In: Applied Statistical Considerations for Clinical Researchers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87410-0_4
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