Clinical Trials as Topic

"Clinical Trials as Topic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Works about pre-planned studies of the safety, efficacy, or optimum dosage schedule (if appropriate) of one or more diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic drugs, devices, or techniques selected according to predetermined criteria of eligibility and observed for predefined evidence of favorable and unfavorable effects. This concept includes clinical trials conducted both in the U.S. and in other countries.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Clinical Trials as Topic" by people in this website by year, and whether "Clinical Trials as Topic" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 2431 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 133 publications in 2011
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