Providing an investigational therapy to a patient who is not eligible to receive that therapy in a clinical trial, but who has a serious or life-threatening illness for which other treatments are not available. Compassionate use trials allow patients to receive promising but not yet fully studied or approved therapies when no other treatment option exists. Also called expanded access trial.

Descriptor ID	D057176
MeSH Number(s)	E02.931.500 E05.337.300.199
Concept/Terms	Compassionate Use Trials Compassionate Use Trials Compassionate Use Trial Trial, Compassionate Use Trials, Compassionate Use Use Trials, Compassionate Expanded Access Trials Access Trial, Expanded Expanded Access Trial Trial, Expanded Access Trials, Expanded Access Humanitarian Device Exemption Humanitarian Device Exemption Device Exemption, Humanitarian Device Exemptions, Humanitarian Exemption, Humanitarian Device Exemptions, Humanitarian Device Humanitarian Device Exemptions Compassionate Use Compassionate Use Compassionate Uses Use, Compassionate

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