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Descriptor English: Randomized Controlled Trial
Descriptor Spanish: Ensayo Clínico Controlado Aleatorio
Descriptor ensayo clínico controlado aleatorizado
Entry term(s) ensayo clínico controlado aleatorio
ensayo controlado aleatorio
ensayo controlado aleatorizado
Scope note: Trabajo que describe un ensayo clínico que implica, al menos, un tratamiento de prueba y un tratamiento de control, el registro y seguimiento simultáneos de los grupos de prueba y de control, y en el que los tratamientos administrados se seleccionan mediante un proceso aleatorio, como la utilización de una tabla de números aleatorios.
Descriptor Portuguese: Ensaio Clínico Controlado Aleatório
Descriptor French: Essai contrôlé randomisé
Tree number(s): V03.175.250.500.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016449
Scope note: A work that reports on a clinical trial that involves 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.
Annotation: this heading is used as a Publication Type; for original report of the conduct or results of a specific randomized controlled trial; a different heading RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC is used for general design, methodology, economics, etc. of randomized controlled trials
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
History Note: 2008(1991)
DeCS ID: 29646
Unique ID: D016449
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Date Established: 1996/01/01
Date of Entry: 1995/06/23
Revision Date: 2015/04/15
Randomized Controlled Trial - Preferred
Concept UI M0025139
Scope note A work that reports on a clinical trial that involves 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.
Preferred term Randomized Controlled Trial



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