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well-controlled

British  

adjective

  1. regulated, operated, or restrained successfully or strictly

    well-controlled research work

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The agency demanded evidence from an “adequate and well-controlled trial” to prove that reducing the protein in patients’ bloods improves patient outcomes.

From The Wall Street Journal

We recently announced in the New England Journal of Medicine that we are changing the requirement for drug studies from two clinical trials to one well-controlled, well-designed trial.

From The Wall Street Journal

He said Moderna’s late-stage trial wasn’t “adequate and well-controlled” because the control arm did not reflect the “best-available standard of care,” which he deemed a high-dose flu vaccine.

From The Wall Street Journal

The agency had said in the letter that the application didn’t contain a trial that was “adequate and well-controlled.”

From Barron's

A letter signed by director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Dr. Vinay Prasad, said the clinical trial was not “adequate and well-controlled” since it did not compare the vaccine to “the best-available standard of care in the United States at the time of the study.”

From Salon