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Investigative Techniques > Evaluation Studies as Topic > Drug Approval > Compassionate Use Trials
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Investigative Techniques > Drug Development > Drug Approval > Compassionate Use Trials
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Therapeutics > Therapies, Investigational > Compassionate Use Trials

Preferred term

Compassionate Use Trials  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • 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. FDA approved marketing and use of a device designed to diagnose or treat a disorder affecting fewer than 4,000 individuals annually. Treatment of seriously ill using unapproved techniques, devices, and substances.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Expanded Access Trials

Allowable Qualifier(s)

In other languages

  • Essais cliniques à usage compassionnel

    French

  • Essais cliniques à accès élargi
  • Essais cliniques à accès étendu
  • Essais cliniques à usage humanitaire
  • Essais cliniques pour un usage compassionnel

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-K8L2B78B-R

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