Clinical Trials & Real-World Evidence

Terms for clinical trial design and for evidence drawn from routine practice outside trials.

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2 terms

Adaptive Trial DesignAdaptive Trial, Flexible Trial Design

An adaptive trial design prospectively specifies how accumulating trial data may trigger changes to the trial while preserving interpretable and valid inference for its stated research questions.

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Allocation ConcealmentConcealed Allocation, Allocation Masking

A safeguard in randomised trials ensuring the assignment sequence is unknown to those enrolling participants until after enrolment, preventing selection bias.

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