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clinical equipoise

clinical equipoise noun: a state of genuine uncertainty in the expert medical community regarding the comparative therapeutic merits of each arm in a clinical trial.

Noun

clinical equipoise (uncountable)

  1. A state of genuine uncertainty in the expert medical community regarding the comparative therapeutic merits of each arm in a clinical trial.

Questions about clinical equipoise

What does clinical equipoise mean?
Clinical equipoise means a state of genuine uncertainty in the expert medical community regarding the comparative therapeutic merits of each arm in a clinical trial.
What part of speech is clinical equipoise?
Clinical equipoise is a noun.

Words near clinical equipoise in the dictionary

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