placebo-controlled
Adjective
Meaning
placebo-controlled (not comparable)
(medicine, sciences, research) including a comparison (control) group with placebo. (describing clinical trials)
A placebo-controlled trial.
Examples
A 2018 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study — the gold standard — found no benefit from CBD on sleep in healthy volunteers.
Among HIV-infected patients who had not yet developed AIDS, placebo-controlled trials found that AZT given as single-drug therapy delayed, for a year or two, the onset of AIDS-related illnesses.
During the double blind randomized placebo-controlled study of Russia's COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) on 29 October, Belarus finished giving the first component of the vaccine to volunteers (100 people received the shots).
Administration of the clopidogrel loading dose in TRITON-TIMI 38 was delayed relative to the placebo-controlled trials that supported its approval for ACS.
D., R.D., notes that a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial is the gold standard for research, but when it comes to food it's not so simple.
A longer-term, placebo-controlled, randomized withdrawal trial demonstrated the efficacy of bupropion HCl sustained-release in the maintenance treatment of MDD.