Patient-reported outcomeA patient-reported outcome (PRO) is a health outcome directly reported by the patient who experienced it. It stands in contrast to an outcome reported by someone else, such as a physician-reported outcome, a nurse-reported outcome, and so on. PRO methods, such as questionnaires, are used in clinical trials or other clinical settings, to help better understand a treatment's efficacy or effectiveness. The use of digitized PROs, or electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs), is on the rise in today's health research setting.
Immunothérapievignette|Thérapie adoptive par lymphocytes T (non annotée). Les lymphocytes T spécifiques du cancer peuvent être obtenus par fragmentation et isolement des lymphocytes infiltrant la tumeur, ou par génie génétique des cellules du sang périphérique. Les cellules sont activées L' consiste à administrer des substances stimulant les défenses immunitaires du malade pour lutter contre des pathologies installées, le plus souvent des cancers, voire contre des maladies dégénératives.
HistocompatibilitéHistocompatibility, or tissue compatibility, is the property of having the same, or sufficiently similar, alleles of a set of genes called human leukocyte antigens (HLA), or major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Each individual expresses many unique HLA proteins on the surface of their cells, which signal to the immune system whether a cell is part of the self or an invading organism. T cells recognize foreign HLA molecules and trigger an immune response to destroy the foreign cells.
Monitoring in clinical trialsClinical monitoring is the oversight and administrative efforts that monitor a participant's health and efficacy of the treatment during a clinical trial. Both independent and government-run grant-funding agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the World Health Organization (WHO), require data and safety monitoring protocols for Phase I and II clinical trials conforming to their standards. Safety monitoring of a clinical trial is conducted by an independent physician with relevant expertise.
ImmunogèneImmunogenicity is the ability of a foreign substance, such as an antigen, to provoke an immune response in the body of a human or other animal. It may be wanted or unwanted: Wanted immunogenicity typically relates to vaccines, where the injection of an antigen (the vaccine) provokes an immune response against the pathogen, protecting the organism from future exposure. Immunogenicity is a central aspect of vaccine development. Unwanted immunogenicity is an immune response by an organism against a therapeutic antigen.
Virus de la rageLe virus de la rage est un rhabdovirus infectant les vertébrés, surtout les mammifères autres que l’homme, ce dernier étant un hôte accidentel de ce virus. La rage provoquée par ce virus neurotrope est une encéphalomyélite qui entraîne toujours la mort du porteur dès lors que des signes et des symptômes de la maladie sont apparus. La transmission du virus de la rage se fait principalement par effraction de la barrière cutanée, le plus souvent par morsure.
Vaccine-preventable diseaseA vaccine-preventable disease is an infectious disease for which an effective preventive vaccine exists. If a person acquires a vaccine-preventable disease and dies from it, the death is considered a vaccine-preventable death. The most common and serious vaccine-preventable diseases tracked by the World Health Organization (WHO) are: diphtheria, Haemophilus influenzae serotype b infection, hepatitis B, measles, meningitis, mumps, pertussis, poliomyelitis, rubella, tetanus, tuberculosis, and yellow fever.
Anamnèse (médecine)L’anamnèse (substantif féminin, du grec . aná-: « de bas en haut » -mnêsis, « mémoire » c'est-à-dire « faire remonter les souvenirs ») est le récit des antécédents d'un malade. L'anamnèse retrace les antécédents médicaux et l'historique de la plainte, la douleur actuelle du patient (c'est-à-dire l'histoire de la maladie - terme qui n'est pas synonyme d'anamnèse, mais plutôt de remémoration), ainsi que les résultats des différentes explorations déjà faites et les traitements entrepris.
Case report formA case report form (or CRF) is a paper or electronic questionnaire specifically used in clinical trial research. The case report form is the tool used by the sponsor of the clinical trial to collect data from each participating patient. All data on each patient participating in a clinical trial are held and/or documented in the CRF, including adverse events. The sponsor of the clinical trial develops the CRF to collect the specific data they need in order to test their hypotheses or answer their research questions.
Adaptive design (medicine)In an adaptive design of a clinical trial, the parameters and conduct of the trial for a candidate drug or vaccine may be changed based on an interim analysis. Adaptive design typically involves advanced statistics to interpret a clinical trial endpoint. This is in contrast to traditional single-arm (i.e. non-randomized) clinical trials or randomized clinical trials (RCTs) that are static in their protocol and do not modify any parameters until the trial is completed.
