LEXICON
No.34 December 20, 2010

Investigator-initiated (clinical) trial:IIT
医師主導型臨床試験(治験)
Clinical trial; Clinical study; Clinical research
臨床治験; 臨床試験; 臨床研究
Investigator; Subinvestigators; Coordinating investigator
治験責任医師; 治験分担医師; 治験調整医師

Clinical trials (臨床治験 or 治験: abbreviation of 治療試験) are defined as studies conducted in humans, patients or healthy volunteers (健常志願者), with investigational new drugs (治験薬) or existing drugs (既存薬) for dual purposes: 1) to generate the data necessary to obtain...

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