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Descriptor English: Clinical Trial
Descriptor Spanish: Ensayo Clínico
Descriptor ensayo clínico
Entry term(s) epidemiología experimental
estudio de intervención
estudio experimental
Scope note: Trabajo que describe los resultados de un estudio clínico en el que se asigna a los participantes a una o más intervenciones para que los investigadores evalúen los efectos de las mismas sobre criterios de valoración biomédicos o relacionados con la salud. Las asignaciones vienen determinadas por el protocolo del estudio. Los participantes pueden ser objeto de intervenciones diagnósticas, terapéuticas o de otro tipo. Para los ensayos clínicos con animales, véase ENSAYO CLÍNICO VETERINARIO. Antes de 2019 se utilizaba el término ensayos clínicos tanto para los ensayos realizados con seres humanos como para los realizados con animales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Ensaio Clínico
Descriptor French: Essai clinique
Entry term(s): Epidemiology, Experimental
Experimental Epidemiology
Experimental Study
Intervention Study
Tree number(s): V03.175.250
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016430
Scope note: A work that reports on the results of a clinical study in which participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions so that researchers can evaluate the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes. The assignments are determined by the study protocol. Participants may receive diagnostic, therapeutic, or other types of interventions. For clinical trials on veterinary animals see CLINICAL TRIAL, VETERINARY. Clinical Trials was used for both humans and non-humans prior to 2019.
Annotation: this heading is used as a Publication Type; for original report of the conduct or results of a specific clinical trial; a different heading CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC is used for general design, methodology, economics, etc. of clinical trials. Clinical trials on veterinary animals see CLINICAL TRIAL, VETERINARY starting in 2019.
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
History Note: 2008(1991)
Related: Evaluation Study MeSH
Validation Study MeSH
DeCS ID: 29623
Unique ID: D016430
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Date Established: 1996/01/01
Date of Entry: 1995/06/23
Revision Date: 2018/06/14
Clinical Trial - Preferred
Concept UI M0025119
Scope note A work that reports on the results of a clinical study in which participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions so that researchers can evaluate the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes. The assignments are determined by the study protocol. Participants may receive diagnostic, therapeutic, or other types of interventions. For clinical trials on veterinary animals see CLINICAL TRIAL, VETERINARY. Clinical Trials was used for both humans and non-humans prior to 2019.
Preferred term Clinical Trial
Entry term(s) Intervention Study
Experimental Epidemiology - Narrower
Concept UI FD00060300
Scope note Field of epidemiology in which studies are characterized by controling conditions and researcher interventions.
Preferred term Experimental Epidemiology
Entry term(s) Epidemiology, Experimental
Experimental Study



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