Monday, November 08, 2010

clinical trial Study Entry Terms

  • Screen
The act of determining if an individual meets minimum requirements to become part of a pool of potential candidates for participation in a clinical trial. Screening may involve invasive or diagnostic procedures and/or tests (for example, diagnostic psychological tests, x-rays, blood draws). For this type of screening, informed consent for these screening procedures and/or tests shall be obtained; this consent may be separate from obtaining consent for the study.
  • Enter/Consent
The act of obtaining informed consent for participation in a clinical trial from subjects deemed eligible or potentially eligible to participate in the clinical trial. Subjects entered into a trial are those who sign the informed consent document directly or through their legally acceptable representatives.
  • Registration
The act of assigning a registration number to the subject indicating that the principal investigator has verified that the subject meets all of the inclusion criteria and none of the exclusion criteria.
  • Enroll/Randomize
The act of assigning a subject to a treatment. Subjects who are enrolled in the trial are those who have been assigned to a treatment.
  • Subject 
An individual who is or becomes a participant in clinical research, either as a recipient of the test article or as a control. A subject may be either a healthy human or a patient.

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