Archives: Glossary Terms

Storing biological samples from participants for future research.

Official decision by an ethics committee to allow a research study involving human participants to begin.

How likely it is that a study can be completed.

A health issue that happens during a study and leads to hospital care, lasting medical problems, life-threatening conditions, or death.

A collection of participant data and samples stored for future research.

The activities that participants will be asked to do during the research study.

Continuing to collect and analyze information about the risks and benefits of medicine and devices after they have been approved for patient use.

A small study that is done to test a process before starting a larger study.

Someone considered too young to give legal consent.

An overall research plan that guides sub-studies that have their own research questions.