Because of a lapse in government funding, the information on this website may not be up to date, transactions submitted via the website may not be processed, and the agency may not be able to respond to inquiries until appropriations are enacted. The NIH Clinical Center (the research hospital of NIH) is open. For more details about its operating status, please visit cc.nih.gov. Updates regarding government operating status and resumption of normal operations can be found at opm.gov.

NLM Logo

Randomized Controlled Trial MeSH Descriptor Data 2025


MeSH Heading
Randomized Controlled Trial
Tree Number(s)
V03.175.250.500.500
Unique ID
D016449
RDF Unique Identifier
http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016449
Annotation
this heading is used as a Publication Type; for original report of the conduct or results of a specific randomized controlled trial; a different heading RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC is used for general design, methodology, economics, etc. of randomized controlled trials
Scope Note
A work that reports on a clinical trial that involves at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table.
History Note
2008(1991)
Date Established
1996/01/01
Date of Entry
1995/06/23
Revision Date
2015/04/15

No Qualifiers
Randomized Controlled Trial Preferred
page delivered in 0.138s