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CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL

Specialty Definition: CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL

DomainDefinition

Health

A clinical study that includes a comparison (control) group. The comparison group receives a placebo, another treatment, or no treatment at all. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

In January 1994, the NINDS awarded a research grant to a group of scientists from three institutions to conduct a controlled clinical trial of fetal tissue implants in humans. (references)

VISP is a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial testing whether a multivitamin with high levels of folate and two B vitamins (B6 and B12) will effectively prevent stroke. (references)

A rigorously controlled clinical trial can more effectively look at the cause and effect of a potential therapy by randomly assigning the drug being tested or a placebo to a controlled group of people. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL

Expression using "CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL": Controlled Clinical Trial [Publication Type]. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

controlled clinical trial

7
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Alternative Orthography: CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 4E 54 52 4F 4C 4C 45 44      43 4C 49 4E 49 43 41 4C      54 52 49 41 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01001110 01010100 01010010 01001111 01001100 01001100 01000101 01000100 00100000 01000011 01001100 01001001 01001110 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100 00100000 01010100 01010010 01001001 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004E 0054 0052 004F 004C 004C 0045 0044      0043 004C 0049 004E 0049 0043 0041 004C      0054 0052 0049 0041 004C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

374948545249464639382374643484337354625452433546

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Expressions
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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