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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.
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Clinical trials
Allocation
Medical devices; Clinical trials
A clinical trial design strategy used to assign participants to an arm of a study. Types of Allocation include randomized, and nonrandomized.
Time frame, outcome measure
Medical devices; Clinical trials
The points in time at which the outcome measure is assessed. These are planned before the clinical study starts and listed in the protocol.
Results submission
Medical devices; Clinical trials
The process of submitting and updating summary information about the results of a clinical study to a structured, public Web-based results database.
Controlled trial
Medical devices; Clinical trials
A type of clinical trial in which observations made during the trial are compared to a standard (called the control). The control may be observations from a group of participants in the same trial or ...
Experimental arm
Medical devices; Clinical trials
A group of participants that receives the intervention that is the focus of the study. One of several arm types.
Collaborator
Medical devices; Clinical trials
A collaborator is an organisation other than the sponsor that provides support for a clinical study. This may include funding, design, implementation, data analysis, or reporting.
Serious adverse event
Medical devices; Clinical trials
An adverse event that results in death, is life-threatening, requires inpatient hospitalisation or extends a current hospital stay, results in an ongoing or significant incapacity or interferes ...
