Preferred Label : controlled clinical trial;
MeSH definition : A work that reports on a clinical trial involving one or more test treatments, at
least one control treatment, specified outcome measures for evaluating the studied
intervention, and a bias-free method for assigning patients to the test treatment.
The treatment may be drugs, devices, or procedures studied for diagnostic, therapeutic,
or prophylactic effectiveness. Control measures include placebos, active medicine,
no-treatment, dosage forms and regimens, historical comparisons, etc. When randomization
using mathematical techniques, such as the use of a random numbers table, is employed
to assign patients to test or control treatments, the trial is characterized as a
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL.;
MeSH annotation : this heading is used as a Publication Type; for original report of the conduct or
results of a specific controlled clinical trial; a different heading CONTROLLED CLINICAL
TRIALS AS TOPIC is used for general design, methodology, economics, etc. of clinical
trials;
Origin ID : D018848;
UMLS CUI : C0936233;
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A work that reports on a clinical trial involving one or more test treatments, at
least one control treatment, specified outcome measures for evaluating the studied
intervention, and a bias-free method for assigning patients to the test treatment.
The treatment may be drugs, devices, or procedures studied for diagnostic, therapeutic,
or prophylactic effectiveness. Control measures include placebos, active medicine,
no-treatment, dosage forms and regimens, historical comparisons, etc. When randomization
using mathematical techniques, such as the use of a random numbers table, is employed
to assign patients to test or control treatments, the trial is characterized as a
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL.
