Primary Clinical Endpoint

A Primary Clinical Endpoint is a clinical endpoint that determines if a given treatment worked

• Context:
  • It can (typically) be decided before the study begins.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • difference in survival between the treatment group and the control group.
  • …
• See: Secondary Endpoint.

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References

2022

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_clinical_research#P
  • Primary Endpoint: The main result that is measured at the end of a study to see if a given treatment worked (e.g., the number of deaths or the difference in survival between the treatment group and the control group). What the primary endpoint will be is decided before the study begins.

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