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Descriptor English: Controlled Clinical Trial
Descriptor Spanish: Ensayo Clínico Controlado
Descriptor ensayo clínico controlado
Scope note: Trabajo que describe los resultados de un estudio clínico consistente en uno o más tratamientos a prueba, al menos un tratamiento de control, medidas de resultado especificadas para evaluar la intervención estudiada y un método, sin sesgos, para asignar a los pacientes al tratamiento de prueba. El tratamiento puede estar basado en fármacos, dispositivos o procedimientos estudiados para valorar la eficacia diagnóstica, terapéutica o profiláctica. Las medidas de control incluyen placebos, medicamentos activos, ausencia de tratamiento, formas y regímenes de dosificación, comparación histórica, etc. Cuando se recurre a la aleatorización con técnicas matemáticas, como el uso de tablas de números aleatorios para la asignación de los pacientes a las pruebas o tratamientos de control, hablaríamos de ENSAYO CLÍNICO CONTROLADO ALEATORIZADO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Ensaio Clínico Controlado
Descriptor French: Essai clinique contrôlé
Tree number(s): V03.175.250.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018848
Scope note: A work that reports on a clinical trial involving one or more test treatments, at least one control treatment, specified outcome measures for evaluating the studied intervention, and a bias-free method for assigning patients to the test treatment. The treatment may be drugs, devices, or procedures studied for diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic effectiveness. Control measures include placebos, active medicine, no-treatment, dosage forms and regimens, historical comparisons, etc. When randomization using mathematical techniques, such as the use of a random numbers table, is employed to assign patients to test or control treatments, the trial is characterized as a RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL.
Annotation: this heading is used as a Publication Type; for original report of the conduct or results of a specific controlled clinical trial; a different heading CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC is used for general design, methodology, economics, etc. of clinical trials
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
History Note: 2008(1995)
DeCS ID: 32388
Unique ID: D018848
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Date Established: 1996/01/01
Date of Entry: 1995/06/23
Revision Date: 2015/04/15
Controlled Clinical Trial - Preferred
Concept UI M0028202
Scope note A work that reports on a clinical trial involving one or more test treatments, at least one control treatment, specified outcome measures for evaluating the studied intervention, and a bias-free method for assigning patients to the test treatment. The treatment may be drugs, devices, or procedures studied for diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic effectiveness. Control measures include placebos, active medicine, no-treatment, dosage forms and regimens, historical comparisons, etc. When randomization using mathematical techniques, such as the use of a random numbers table, is employed to assign patients to test or control treatments, the trial is characterized as a RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL.
Preferred term Controlled Clinical Trial



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