Trial arm

In Trial design & structure

Also known as: treatment arm, study arm

An arm is one of the groups of participants in a trial, each receiving a defined intervention. A simple trial has two arms — for instance the investigational treatment and a placebo. Multi-arm trials compare several doses or several treatments against a shared control.

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