| prospective | prospektiv |
| Prospective is used to describe something that is relating to the future. The objective of a prospective trial is defined before its start. The data needed to answer a specific scientific question will then be collected especially for this trial. All interventional clinical trials are prospective trials. One example of a prospective non-interventional trial is a cohort study.
Unlike prospective trials, retrospective studies evaluate already existing data. |
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