Compassionate Use Trials

Providing an investigational therapy to a patient who is not eligible to receive that therapy in a clinical trial, but who has a serious or life-threatening illness for which other treatments are not available. Compassionate use trials allow patients to receive promising but not yet fully studied or approved therapies when no other treatment option exists. Also called expanded access trial.

Year introduced: 2010

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Tree Number(s): E02.931.500, E05.290.250.199, E05.337.300.199

MeSH Unique ID: D057176

Entry Terms:

• Compassionate Use Trial
• Trial, Compassionate Use
• Trials, Compassionate Use
• Use Trials, Compassionate
• Expanded Access Trials
• Access Trial, Expanded
• Expanded Access Trial
• Trial, Expanded Access
• Trials, Expanded Access
• Humanitarian Device Exemption
• Device Exemption, Humanitarian
• Device Exemptions, Humanitarian
• Exemption, Humanitarian Device
• Exemptions, Humanitarian Device
• Humanitarian Device Exemptions
• Compassionate Use
• Compassionate Uses
• Use, Compassionate

All MeSH Categories
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Category
Therapeutics
Therapies, Investigational
Compassionate Use Trials

All MeSH Categories
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Category
Investigative Techniques
Drug Development
Drug Approval
Compassionate Use Trials

All MeSH Categories
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Category
Investigative Techniques
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Drug Approval
Compassionate Use Trials