Clinical trials

Clinical trials

Clinical trials are sets of tests performed for medical research and drug development which is used to extract safety and efficacy data.

Industry: Medical devices; Pharmaceutical

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Investigational treatment

Pharmaceutical; Clinical trials

The new drug or therapy being tested in the clinical trial.

Experimental treatment

Pharmaceutical; Clinical trials

The new drug or therapy being tested in the clinical trial.

Complications

Biotechnology; Biomedical

Complication, in medicine, is an unfavourable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, ...

Study type

Medical devices; Clinical trials

Describes the nature of a clinical study. Study types include interventional studies (or clinical trials), observational studies, and expanded access.

Observational study model

Medical devices; Clinical trials

The general design, describing the strategy for identifying and following up with participants during observational studies. Types of observational study models include cohort, case-control, ...

Human subjects review board

Medical devices; Clinical trials

A group of people who review, approve, and monitor the clinical study protocol. Their role is to protect the rights and welfare of human research subjects participating in a study. The group ...

Closed studies

Medical devices; Clinical trials

Clinical studies that are no longer recruiting participants because they have enough participants already, because they are completed, or because they have been stopped for some reason. This also ...