Also known as experimental control, observation group, control, healthy controls, clinical control group, control arm
group of experiment subjects that receive no research intervention (or placebo)
Research
1,696,612 papers- A review of the non-equivalent control group post-test-only design.Nurse researcher · 2019
- The control group revisited.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2023
- Control group design, contamination and drop-out in exercise oncology trials: a systematic review.PloS one · 2015
- Choice of control group treatments in hand osteoarthritis trials: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism · 2021
- Placebo control group in COVID-19 vaccine trials: context and timing matters.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- group in an experiment
- Has use
- scientific method
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- opposite of
- treatment group
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C28143
- uses
- placebo
- different from
- cgroups
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