Clinical Trials as Topic
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Science, technology, and innovation: nursing responsibilities in clinical research.

29 Nov 2009 Clinical research is a systematic investigation of human biology, health, or illness involving human beings. It builds on laboratory and animal studies and often involves clinical trials, which are specifically designed to test the safety and ... Read more...

How to evaluate emerging technologies in cervical cancer screening?

29 Nov 2009 Excellent recommendations exist for studying therapeutic and diagnostic questions. We observe that good guidelines on assessment of evidence for screening questions are currently lacking. Guidelines for diagnostic research (STARD), involving ... Read more...

Incidence of and risk factors for cognitive impairment in an early Parkinson disease clinical trial cohort.

Nov 2009 OBJECTIVE: To investigate the incidence of and risk factors for cognitive impairment in a large, well-defined clinical trial cohort of patients with early Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS: The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) was administered ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Clinical Trials as Topic'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Science, technology, and innovation: nursing responsibilities in clinical research. 29 Nov 2009
• How to evaluate emerging technologies in cervical cancer screening? 29 Nov 2009
• Thrombolysis for pediatric venous thromboembolism: is it time for a trial? 29 Nov 2009
• AIDS vaccine research and advocacy: an update. 29 Nov 2009
• Influenza in 2009: new solutions, same old problems. 2 Nov 2009
• Incidence of and risk factors for cognitive impairment in an early Parkinson disease clinical trial cohort. Nov 2009
• Tonabersat, a novel gap-junction modulator for the prevention of migraine. 30 Oct 2009
• Targeting protein kinases in central nervous system disorders. 30 Oct 2009
• Cell-based therapy for ischemic heart disease: a clinical update. 30 Oct 2009
• A comparison of sodium calcium edetate (edetate calcium disodium) and succimer (DMSA) in the treatment of inorganic lead poisoning. 30 Oct 2009
• Devices and drugs for stroke: why do regulations differ? 30 Oct 2009
• Importance of clinical relevance in clinical trials. 30 Oct 2009
• Hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers: current status and future directions. 30 Oct 2009
• Research and publishing in rehabilitation medicine. 30 Oct 2009
• Dropouts and missing data in psychiatric clinical trials. 30 Oct 2009
• Night driving after LASIK. 30 Oct 2009
• The perils of glaucoma surgical outcome analysis. 30 Oct 2009
• Increase in quality, but not quantity, of clinical trials in acute pain: 1992 versus 2007. 30 Oct 2009
• Continuing the use of the Cockcroft-Gault equation for drug dosing in patients with impaired renal function. 30 Oct 2009
• Rotavirus vaccines for infants in developing countries in Africa and Asia: considerations from a world health organization-sponsored consultation. 30 Oct 2009

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Technical information about 'Clinical Trials as Topic'

Definition: 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.

Descriptor UI: D002986

Alternative terms: Clinical Trials as Topic; Clinical Trial as Topic;

Related Mesh Headings: Meta-Analysis as Topic; Drug Approval; Clinical Trials Data Monitoring Committees; Therapies, Investigational;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics; legislation & jurisprudence;

Tree Number: E05.318.760.535; E05.337.250; N05.715.360.775.235; N06.850.520.450.535;

History Note: 2008(1965)

Technical Notes: for general design, methodology, economics, etc. of clinical trials; a different heading CLINICAL TRIAL is used for reports of a specific clinical trial