Clinical Trial Healthy Control Group
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A Clinical Trial Healthy Control Group is a Control Group that is a person without the health condition or disease being a studied.
- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial, Crossover Clinical Trial, Parallel Clinical Trial, Multi-Arm Clinical Trial, Dynamic Clinical Trial.
References
2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_clinical_research#H Retrieved:2022-02-05.
- QUOTE: In a clinical study, a person who does not have the disorder or disease being studied. Results from healthy controls are compared to results from the group being studied. (NCI)
2015
- (Ghorbani et al., 2015) ⇒ Shireen Ghorbani, Amir Nejad, David Law, Kathleen S. Chua, Meridythe M. Amichai, and Mark Pimentela (2015). "Healthy control subjects are poorly defined in case-control studies of irritable bowel syndrome". In: Annals of Gastroenterology, 28(1).
- QUOTE: Patients with gastrointestinal (GI) diseases are often studied and compared to healthy control subjects. The ability to evaluate disease and response to treatment is heavily dependent on this case-control study design and its accepted definition of “control subject". Data from these studies can be used to support or negate the role of certain factors in the etiology of a disease or condition[1]. Without the proper definitions, the quality of data comes into question and may lead to misinterpretation of results [2].
- ↑ Schlesselman JJ, Stolley PD. New York: Oxford University Press; 1982. Case-control studies: design, conduct, analysis.
- ↑ Boynton PM, Greenhalgh T. Selecting, designing, and developing your questionnaire. BMJ. 2004;328:1312–1315