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Clinical trials

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

Contributors in Clinical trials

Clinical trials

Intervention

Medical devices; Clinical trials

A process or action that is the focus of a clinical study. This can include giving participants drugs, medical devices, procedures, vaccines, and other products that are either investigational or ...

Registration

Medical devices; Clinical trials

The process of submitting and updating summary information about a clinical study protocol from its beginning to end, to a structured, Web-based registry that is accessible to the public.

Terminated

Medical devices; Clinical trials

The clinical study has stopped recruiting or enrolling participants early and will not start again. Participants are no longer being examined or treated. A type of recruitment status.

Open label

Medical devices; Clinical trials

Describes a clinical trial in which masking is not used. That means that all parties involved with the trial know which participants have been assigned which interventions.

Results first received date

Medical devices; Clinical trials

The date that summary information about the results of a clinical study was first submitted.

First received date

Medical devices; Clinical trials

The first received date is the date that summary clinical study protocol information was first submitted.

Sham comparator arm

Medical devices; Clinical trials

A group of participants that receives a procedure or device that is made to be indistinguishable from the actual procedure or device being studied but does not contain active processes or components. ...

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