Definition: Work that is the report of a pre-planned, usually controlled, clinical study of the safety and efficacy of diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic drugs, devices, or techniques based on a small number of healthy persons and conducted over the period of about a year in either the United States or a foreign country.
this heading is used as a Publication Type; for original report of the conduct or results of a specific phase I clinical trial; a different heading CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE I AS TOPIC is used for general design, methodology, economics, etc. of phase I clin
