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Acronyms were first used to identify clinical trials in the 1970s. [5] The first identified instance was "UGDP", an initialism for University Group Diabetes Program. The first trial title commonly pronounced as an English-language word or words came in 1982 with the publication of "MRFIT", referring to the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial, and spoken as "Mr. Fit" or "the Mr. Fit trial".
The use of acronyms to describe medical trials has been criticised as potentially leading to incorrect assumptions based on similar acronyms, difficulty accessing trial results when common words are used, and causing a cognitive bias when positive acronyms are used to portray trials (e.g. "HOPE" or "SMART"). [8]
Pages in category "Naming conventions" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. ... Clinical trial naming conventions; Common Platform Enumeration;
Grouping Qualifiers are used to group together a collection of observations within the same domain. Examples include—CAT and—SCAT. Result Qualifiers describe the specific results associated with the topic variable for a finding. It is the answer to the question raised by the topic variable. Examples include—ORRES, --STRESC, and—STRESN.
A clinical trial is a research study to answer specific questions about vaccines or new therapies or new ways of using known treatments. Clinical trials (also called medical research and research studies) are used to determine whether new drugs or treatments are both safe and effective.
Clinical trials are used to gather statistical evidence about the effects of particular medical investigations or therapies. This category is for specific clinical trials and specific types of clinical trials. Use Category:Clinical research for articles which are about the field but not particularly about clinical trials themselves.
Clinical study reports; A full table of contents could be quite large. There are two categories of modules: Regional module: 1 (different for each region; i.e., country) Common modules: 2–5 (common to all the regions) The CTD defines the content only of the common modules.
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