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Healthy Volunteers

"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.

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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)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Healthy Volunteers" by people in this website by year, and whether "Healthy Volunteers" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 99 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 15 publications in 2015
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