Is your health research a clinical trial?

A clinical trial is any research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects on health outcomes.

Interventions include but are not restricted to drugs, radiopharmaceuticals, cells and other biological products, surgical procedures, radiological procedures, devices, genetic therapies, natural health products, behavioural treatments, process-of-care changes, preventive care, manual therapies and psychotherapies.