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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lead

Medical devices; Clinical trials

The organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.

active comparator arm

Medical devices; Clinical trials

A group of participants that receives an intervention that is considered to be effective. One of several arm types.

responsible party

Medical devices; Clinical trials

The sponsor, sponsor-investigator, or sponsor-designated principal investigator who is responsible for submitting information about a clinical study and updating that information.

participant flow

Medical devices; Clinical trials

A summary of the progress of participants through each stage of a clinical study, by study arm. This includes the number of participants who started, completed, and dropped out of the study.

placebo

Medical devices; Clinical trials

A substance that does not contain active ingredients and is made to be physically indistinguishable (that is, it looks and tastes identical) from the actual drug being studied.

collaborator

Medical devices; Clinical trials

A collaborator is an organization other than the sponsor that provides support for a clinical study. This may include funding, design, implementation, data analysis, or reporting.

A type of masking in which two or more parties involved with the clinical trial do not know which participants have been assigned which interventions. Typically, this includes the investigator and ...