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Last uploaded: March 22, 2026
Id http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D057176
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Compassionate Use Trials

Definitions
FDA approved marketing and use of a device designed to diagnose or treat a disorder affecting fewer than 4,000 individuals annually. Providing an investigational therapy to a patient who is not eligible to receive that therapy in a clinical trial, but who has a serious or life-threatening illness for which other treatments are not available. Compassionate use trials allow patients to receive promising but not yet fully studied or approved therapies when no other treatment option exists. Also called expanded access trial. Treatment of seriously ill using unapproved techniques, devices, and substances.
Synonyms
Compassionate Use Trial
Access Trial, Expanded
Trials, Expanded Access
Compassionate Uses
Humanitarian Device Exemptions
Trial, Expanded Access
Trial, Compassionate Use
Use Trials, Compassionate
Exemption, Humanitarian Device
Expanded Access Trial
Expanded Access Trials
Trials, Compassionate Use
Use, Compassionate
Device Exemption, Humanitarian
Humanitarian Device Exemption
Exemptions, Humanitarian Device
Compassionate Use
Device Exemptions, Humanitarian
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