"Healthy Volunteers" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Persons with no known significant health problems who are recruited to participate in research to test a new drug, device, or intervention as controls for a patient group. (from http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/recruit/volunteers.html, accessed 2/14/2013)
Descriptor ID |
D064368
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MeSH Number(s) |
M01.774.500 M01.955.236
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Concept/Terms |
Healthy Volunteers- Healthy Volunteers
- Healthy Volunteer
- Volunteer, Healthy
- Healthy Participants
- Healthy Participant
- Participant, Healthy
- Participants, Healthy
- Healthy Subjects
- Healthy Subject
- Subject, Healthy
- Subjects, Healthy
Human Volunteers- Human Volunteers
- Human Volunteer
- Volunteer, Human
- Volunteers, Human
Normal Volunteers- Normal Volunteers
- Normal Volunteer
- Volunteer, Normal
- Volunteers, Normal
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