Medical Subject Headings

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Preferred Name

Controlled Clinical Trial
Synonyms
Definitions

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.

ID

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D018848

AN

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

cui

C0936233

DC

2

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.

DX

19960101

HN

2008(1995)

MDA

19950623

MMR

20150415

MN

V03.175.250.500

notation

D018848

prefLabel

Controlled Clinical Trial

TERMUI

T056193

TH

NLM (1996)

tui

T170

subClassOf

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D016430

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