Observational Study
"Observational Study" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A work that reports on the results of a clinical study in which participants may receive diagnostic, therapeutic, or other types of interventions, but the investigator does not assign participants to specific interventions (as in an interventional study).
| Descriptor ID |
D064888
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| MeSH Number(s) |
V03.175.500
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