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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

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 ...

open studies

Medical devices; Clinical trials

Studies that are currently recruiting participants, will be recruiting participants in the future, or involve drugs that are available for expanded access. Recruitment statuses include: * ...

study record

Medical devices; Clinical trials

An data entry that contains summary protocol information about a clinical study, such as recruitment status, eligibility criteria, contact information, and in some cases summary results.

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.

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 ...

quorum sensing

Pharmaceutical; Clinical trials

An ability known to be present in most forms of bacteria that allows the individual organisms to sense how many similar organisms are in the vicinity, and modify their behavior accordingly. This ...

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