{"id":25444,"date":"2021-03-31T14:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.mrctcenter.org\/clinical-research-glossary\/?page_id=25444"},"modified":"2023-11-21T19:27:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T19:27:03","slug":"external-glossary-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.mrctcenter.org\/clinical-research-glossary\/external-glossary-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"EXTERNAL GLOSSARY RESOURCES"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>External Glossary Resources<\/h1>\n<p>The MRCT Center&#8217;s Clinical Research Glossary focuses primarily on plain language definitions for complex terms that are often used in <strong>clinical research<\/strong> materials and conversations.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the glossary here, general medical and disease-specific glossaries can be helpful to explain general and specific health conditions more clearly. These are listed below:<\/p>\n<h3><strong>General Medical Glossaries<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdisc.org\/standards\/glossary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDISC Glossary (USA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ema.europa.eu\/en\/documents\/other\/ema-medical-terms-simplifier_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">European Medicines Agency medical terms simplifier (EU)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.mrctcenter.org\/health-literacy\/tools\/overview\/cultural-considerations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kingston Health Sciences Center (Canada)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.invo.org.uk\/resource-centre\/jargon-buster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">National Institutes of Health Jargon Buster (USA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hra.nhs.uk\/approvals-amendments\/glossary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">NHS Health Research Authority Glossary (UK)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.umich.edu\/plain-language-dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The University of Michigan Plain Language Medical Dictionary (USA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justplainclear.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Health Group Just Plain Clear Glossary (USA)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Glossaries Focusing on Cancer<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncancertestingterms.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common Cancer Testing Terms (USA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/about-fda\/oncology-center-excellence\/patient-friendly-language-cancer-clinical-trials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food and Drug Administration Patient-Friendly Language for Cancer Clinical Trials (USA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/publications\/dictionaries\/cancer-terms\/search?q=heman&amp;redirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Cancer Institute Dictionary of Cancer Terms (USA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nccn.org\/clinical_trials\/informed_consent.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The National Comprehensive Cancer Network Informed Consent Language (ICL) database (USA)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other Specialized Glossaries<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/toolkit.ncats.nih.gov\/glossary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NCATS Toolkit for Patient-Focused Therapy Development (USA)\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalhealthcouncil.org\/real-world-evidence-glossary\/#clinicaltrial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Health Council Real World Evidence Glossary (USA)\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have another great resource to add to this list? <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.mrctcenter.org\/clinical-research-glossary\/contact-us\/\">Contact us<\/a> to let us know![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1617200540736{background-color: #099093 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] External Glossary Resources The MRCT Center&#8217;s Clinical Research Glossary focuses primarily on plain language definitions for complex terms that are often used in clinical research materials and conversations. In addition to the glossary here, general medical and disease-specific glossaries can be helpful to explain general and specific health conditions more clearly. These are listed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.mrctcenter.org\/clinical-research-glossary\/external-glossary-resources\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EXTERNAL GLOSSARY RESOURCES<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"28118","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25444","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.mrctcenter.org\/clinical-research-glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.mrctcenter.org\/clinical-research-glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.mrctcenter.org\/clinical-research-glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.mrctcenter.org\/clinical-research-glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.mrctcenter.org\/clinical-research-glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.mrctcenter.org\/clinical-research-glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28165,"href":"https:\/\/dev.mrctcenter.org\/clinical-research-glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25444\/revisions\/28165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.mrctcenter.org\/clinical-research-glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}