Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques, and Equipment

Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic

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.

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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.

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  • Clinical Trials, Controlled as Topic

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, psychology, standards, statistics & numerical data, veterinary.

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Indexing 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

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History Note

2008(1995); use CLINICAAL TRIALS 1980-1984

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  • Clinical Trials (1980-1994)

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  1. E05.318w.372.250.250w.365
  2. N05.715w.360.330.250.250w.365
  3. N06.850w.520w.450.250.250w.365

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018849. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018849
  2. Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70447452