controlled clinical trials as topic

Preferred Label : controlled clinical trials as topic;

MeSH definition : Works about clinical trials 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 medicines, 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 trials are characterized as RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC.;

MeSH synonym : clinical trials, controlled as topic;

MeSH annotation : for general design, methodology, economics, etc. of clinical trials; a different heading CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL is used for reports of a specific clinical trial;

Details

Origin ID

D018849;

UMLS CUI

C0009933;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- psychology [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- veterinary [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Controlled Clinical Trial [NCIt concept]
- Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic [DeCS]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- intervention study [Q-code]
Record concept(s)
- controlled clinical trials as topic [MeSH concept]
See also
- control groups [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Research Activity [UMLS semantic type]

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