Clinical Trial Dropout Participant
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A Clinical Trial Dropout Participant is a clinical trial participant that fails to continue in the clinical trial.
- AKA: Clinical Trial Dropout, Dropout Patient.
- Context:
- It can (typically) be a Low-Engagement Clinical Trial Participant.
- It can be measured with a Clinical Trial Dropout Measure, such as clinical trial dropout rate.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Clinical Trial Protocol, School Dropout, U.S. Dropout Recovery Program, Good Clinical Practice.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_clinical_research#D Retrieved:2021-12-18.
- QUOTE: Dropout
- A subject in a clinical trial who for any reason fails to continue in the trial until the last visit required of him/her by the study protocol. (ICH E9)
2005
- (Eysenbach, 2005) ⇒ Gunther Eysenbach. (2005). “The Law of Attrition.” In: Journal of medical Internet research, 7(1).
- QUOTE: ... This feature of eHealth trials is a distinct characteristic compared to, for example, drug trials. The traditional clinical trial and evidence-based medicine paradigm stipulates that high dropout rates make trials less believable. Consequently eHealth researchers tend to gloss over high dropout rates, or not to publish their study results at all, as they see their studies as failures. However, for many eHealth trials, in particular those conducted on the Internet and in particular with self-help applications, high dropout rates may be a natural and typical feature. ...