Placebo - CISMeF

Preferred Label : Placebo;

NCIt synonyms : PLCB;

NCIt related terms : placebo therapy; sham therapy;

NCIt definition : An inactive substance, treatment or procedure that is intended to provide baseline measurements for the experimental protocol of a clinical trial.;

Alternative definition : CDISC-GLOSS: A pharmaceutical preparation that does not contain the investigational agent and is generally prepared to be physically indistinguishable from the preparation containing the investigational product.; NCI-GLOSS: An inactive substance or treatment that looks the same as, and is given the same way as, an active drug or treatment being tested. The effects of the active drug or treatment are compared to the effects of the placebo.;

NCI Metathesaurus CUI : CL473981;

Codes from synonyms : CDR0000046688; CDR0000045078; CDR0000522478;

Details

Origin ID

C753;

UMLS CUI

C0032042;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Placebo given (situation) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Placebos [HPMULTI term]
- placebo effect [MeSH Descriptor]
- placebo role [OBI concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Placebos [DeCS]
- placebos [MeSH Descriptor]
- placebos [MeSH concept]
concept_is_in_subset
- CDISC Glossary Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CTRP Agent Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CTRP Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Terminology [NCIt concept]
- GDC Terminology [NCIt concept]
- GDC Therapeutic Agent Terminology [NCIt concept]
- GDC Value Terminology [NCIt concept]
- NCI Drug Dictionary Terminology [NCIt concept]

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