National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 23, 2024
Preferred Name

Masking

Synonyms

Masking

masking

Definitions

The mechanism used to obscure the distinctive characteristics of the study intervention or procedure to make it indistinguishable from the comparator. NOTE: Blinding refers to study participants while masking refers to the study intervention. [After Crisp A. Blinding in pharmaceutical clinical trials: An overview of points to consider. Contemp Clin Trials. 2015;43:155-163.] See also blinding.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C191278

ALT_DEFINITION

The mechanism used to obscure the distinctive characteristics of the study intervention or procedure to make it indistinguishable from the comparator. NOTE: Blinding refers to study participants while masking refers to the study intervention. [After Crisp A. Blinding in pharmaceutical clinical trials: An overview of points to consider. Contemp Clin Trials. 2015;43:155-163.] See also blinding.

code

C191278

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C61410

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C67497

Contributing_Source

CDISC-GLOSS

DEFINITION

The mechanism used to obscure the distinctive characteristics of the study intervention or procedure to make it indistinguishable from the comparator. NOTE: Blinding refers to study participants while masking refers to the study intervention. [After Crisp A. Blinding in pharmaceutical clinical trials: An overview of points to consider. Contemp Clin Trials. 2015;43:155-163.] See also blinding.

FULL_SYN

Masking

masking

label

Masking

NCI_META_CUI

CL1905299

Preferred_Name

Masking

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C191278

Semantic_Type

Activity

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C71473

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