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Glossary of Common Site Terms
source: U.S. National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov
year: 2020
summary/abstract:Accepts Healthy Volunteers
A type of eligibility criteria that indicates whether people who do not have the condition/disease being studied can participate in that clinical study.
Active Comparator arm
An arm type in which a group of participants receives an intervention/treatment considered to be effective (or active) by health care providers.
Adverse Event
An unfavorable change in the health of a participant, including abnormal laboratory findings, that happens during a clinical study or within a certain amount of time after the study has ended. This change may or may not be caused by the intervention/treatment being studied.
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