Works about clinical trials involving one or more test treatments, at least one control treatment, specified outcome measures for evaluating the studied intervention, and a bias-free method for assigning patients to the test treatment. The treatment may be drugs, devices, or procedures studied for diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic effectiveness. Control measures include placebos, active medicines, no-treatment, dosage forms and regimens, historical comparisons, etc. When randomization using mathematical techniques, such as the use of a random numbers table, is employed to assign patients to test or control treatments, the trials are characterized as RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC.

Descriptor ID	D018849
MeSH Number(s)	E05.318.760.250.500.365 N05.715.360.775.088.500.387 N06.850.520.450.250.250.365
Concept/Terms	Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic Clinical Trials, Controlled as Topic

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