blinding
- Guideline or reference source
- ECA GAMP5 Approach and Risk Management
- ICHE6(r1) Guideline for good clinical practice
- Definition
- A procedure in which one or more parties to the trial are kept unaware of the treatment assignment(s). Single-blinding usually refers to the subject(s) being unaware, and double-blinding usually refers to the subject(s), investigator(s), monitor, and, in some cases, data analyst(s) being unaware of the treatment assignment(s).
- Used For
- double-blind research design
- masking
- Broader Term
- clinical trial design
- Narrower Term
- blind review
- blinded medication
- double-blind study
- single-blind study
- Related Term
- double-blind masking
- placebo effect
- unblinding
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