What happens in a bioequivalence study?
Volunteers will undergo a medical check-up (called a screening visit) before the study. At the commencement of the study, volunteers will stay for one or more days in a hospital or study ward reserved for clinical studies. They will take one dose of a medical product (either Brand A or Brand B) and allow the clinical study team to collect their blood samples (approximately 10ml each time) at fixed times for one or more days, becoming less frequent as time progresses. After leaving the hospital or study ward they may be required to return to give further follow-up blood samples up to once a day over the next few days. One to four weeks later they will check into the study ward or hospital to repeat the procedure, but with the medical product which they did not take during the first study period.
