Clinical Research and Statistics Terms
Clinical trials, study design, evidence, outcomes, probability, and medical statistics. Browse definitions and meanings below.
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The point is to build a process that reliably produces good work, not to inspect finished work afterward and hope it passes.
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Deciding treatment by chance, which remains the only method that balances the factors nobody involved thought to measure.
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A study in which the participants are assigned by chance to separate groups that compare different treatments; neither the researchers nor the participants can choose which group.
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The organization that designs a trial and hands the protocol to the community sites that actually enroll people.
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A word that promises far less than it sounds like it does: a result unlikely to be chance, not a result that matters.
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A type of clinical trial in which only the doctor knows whether a patient is taking the standard treatment or the new treatment being tested.
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Written so that the same task produces the same result whoever performs it, and so that anyone can later check that it did.