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Descriptor English: Observational Study
Descriptor Spanish: Estudio Observacional
Descriptor estudio observacional
Entry term(s) estudio de experimentos naturales
estudio de observación naturalista
experimento natural
Scope note: Trabajo que describe los resultados de un estudio clínico, en el que los participantes pueden recibir intervenciones diagnósticas, terapéuticas o de otro tipo, pero en los que el investigador no asigna los participantes a intervenciones específicas (como en un estudio de intervención).
Descriptor Portuguese: Estudo Observacional
Descriptor French: Étude d'observation
Entry term(s): Natural Experiment
Natural Experiment Study
Naturalistic Observation Study
Tree number(s): V03.175.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D064888
Scope note: A work that reports on the results of a clinical study in which participants may receive diagnostic, therapeutic, or other types of interventions, but the investigator does not assign participants to specific interventions (as in an interventional study).
Annotation: this heading is used as a Publication Type; for original report of the conduct or results of a specific observational study; a different heading OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES AS TOPIC is used for general design, methodology, economics, etc. of observational studies
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
History Note: 2014
DeCS ID: 55468
Unique ID: D064888
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Date Established: 2014/01/01
Date of Entry: 2013/07/08
Revision Date: 2023/05/31
Observational Study - Preferred
Concept UI M0584630
Scope note A work that reports on the results of a clinical study in which participants may receive diagnostic, therapeutic, or other types of interventions, but the investigator does not assign participants to specific interventions (as in an interventional study).
Preferred term Observational Study
Natural Experiment Study - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000764466
Preferred term Natural Experiment Study
Entry term(s) Natural Experiment
Naturalistic Observation Study - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000764470
Preferred term Naturalistic Observation Study



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