Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques, and Equipment

Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic

Works about clinical trials that involve at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table.

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Works about clinical trials that involve at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Clinical Trials, Randomized
  • Controlled Clinical Trials, Randomized
  • Trials, Randomized Clinical

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11 allowable subheadings

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 randomized controlled trials; a different heading RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL is used for reports of a specific randomized trial

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History Note

2008(1990)

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Previous Indexing

  • Clinical Trials (1966-1989)

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  2. N05.715w.360.330.250.250w.365.500w
  3. N06.850w.520w.450.250.250w.365.500w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016032. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016032
  2. Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial
  3. Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1436668