Acronyms & Glossaries

Acronyms

Alphabet Soup (US Federal Agencies): CDER: Center For Drug Evaluation and Research; CBER: Center For Biologics Evaluation and Research; CDRH: Center For Devices and Radiological Health; FDA: Food and Drug Administration (part of HHS); HHS: Health and Human Services; OHRP: Office For Human Research Protections (part of HHS); ORI: Office of Research Integrity (part of HHS); OIG: Office of the Inspector General

Glossaries

Definitions of Regulatory Terms in Research (Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs Inc.)
Glossary of Terms used in clinical trials and epidemiology (Bandolier)
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Glossary of Terms Used in Evidence Based Medicine (Centre for Evidence–Based Medicine, Oxford)
Institutional Review Board Guidebook – Glossary US Office for Human Research Protection (Comprehensive)
Glossary of Clinical Trials Terms US National Institute of Health/ClinicalTrials.gov
Clinical Trials Glossary CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
Glossary of Lay Terms for Use in Preparing Consent Forms For Human Subjects (Stanford University)
Medical Dictionary MedTerms.com
Meriter Health Services, Clinical Trials – Glossary of Terms (Basic)
Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
National Institutes of Health – Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations
NCI Thesaurus (National Cancer Institute)
NCI Metathesaurus (National Cancer Institute)
Regulatory Affairs Glossary Regulatory Affairs Professional Society

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Last Updated: 2004-11-07