DeCS

Descriptor English:

Healthy Volunteers

Descriptor Spanish:

Voluntarios Sanos

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	voluntarios sanos
Scope note:	Personas sin problemas de salud significativos conocidos que son reclutadas para participar en investigación con el fin de probar un nuevo medicamento, dispositivo o intervención como controles en relación con un grupo de pacientes. (http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/recruit/volunteers.html, accessed 2/14/2013)

Descriptor Portuguese:

Voluntários Saudáveis

Descriptor French:

Volontaires sains

Entry term(s):

Healthy Participant
Healthy Participants
Healthy Subject
Healthy Subjects
Healthy Volunteer
Human Volunteer
Human Volunteers
Normal Volunteer
Normal Volunteers
Participant, Healthy
Participants, Healthy
Subject, Healthy
Subjects, Healthy
Volunteer, Healthy
Volunteer, Human
Volunteer, Normal
Volunteers, Human
Volunteers, Normal

Tree number(s):

M01.774.500
M01.955.236

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D064368

Scope note:

Persons with no known significant health problems who are recruited to participate in research to test a new drug, device, or intervention as controls for a patient group. (from http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/recruit/volunteers.html, accessed 2/14/2013)

Annotation:

IM when ethical, legal, psychological, social or economic aspects of the volunteers are discussed

Allowable Qualifiers:

CL classification
ED education
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data

Public MeSH Note:

2014

History Note:

2014

DeCS ID:

55451

Unique ID:

D064368

Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL):

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Date Established:

2014/01/01

Date of Entry:

2013/07/08

Revision Date:

2014/06/16

NAMED GROUPS

Persons [M01]

Persons

Research Subjects [M01.774]

Research Subjects

Healthy Volunteers [M01.774.500]

NAMED GROUPS

Healthy Volunteers [M01.955.236]

Healthy Volunteers

Hospital Volunteers [M01.955.473]

Hospital Volunteers

Healthy Volunteers - Preferred

Concept UI	M0581439
Scope note	Persons with no known significant health problems who are recruited to participate in research to test a new drug, device, or intervention as controls for a patient group. (from http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/recruit/volunteers.html, accessed 2/14/2013)
Preferred term	Healthy Volunteers
Entry term(s)	Healthy Participant Healthy Participants Healthy Subject Healthy Subjects Healthy Volunteer Participant, Healthy Participants, Healthy Subject, Healthy Subjects, Healthy Volunteer, Healthy

Human Volunteers - Related but not broader or narrower

Concept UI	M0010645
Preferred term	Human Volunteers
Entry term(s)	Human Volunteer Volunteer, Human Volunteers, Human

Normal Volunteers - Related but not broader or narrower

Concept UI	M0582614
Preferred term	Normal Volunteers
Entry term(s)	Normal Volunteer Volunteer, Normal Volunteers, Normal

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