Abbreviation of Terms
The following is a list of terms used in learning activities within this website.
Term | Abbreviation |
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Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Register |
ANZCTR |
Australian Cancer Cooperative Group or Cancer Cooperative Trial Group |
CCTG |
Australian Vice Chancellors Committees |
AVCC |
Cancer Australia |
CA |
Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials |
CONSORT |
Consumer Advisory Panel |
CAP |
Clinical trial notification |
CTN |
Clinical Trial Exemption |
CTX |
Confidence Interval |
CI |
Data Monitoring Committees |
DMC |
General Practitioner |
GP |
Hazard Ratio |
HR |
Human Research Ethics Committees or Health Research Ethics committees |
HREC |
International Conference on Harmonisation of technical requirements for registration of pharmaceuticals for human use – Good Clinical Practice Guidelines |
ICH-GCP |
Journal of Clinical Oncology |
JCO |
Local Health District |
LHD |
National Health and Medical Research Council |
NHMRC |
New England Journal of Medicine |
NEJM |
Odds Ratio |
OR |
Observational Studies in Epidemiology |
MOOSE |
Patient Information Sheet |
PIS |
Patient Information Consent Form |
PIC |
Plain Languages Statement |
PLS |
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme |
PBS |
The PRISMA Statement for Reporting Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Studies That Evaluate Health Care Interventions |
PRISMA |
Probability of a statistic occurring by chance |
P value |
Population mean or mu |
μ |
Quality of Life |
QoL |
Randomized Control Trials |
RCT |
Relative Risk |
RR |
Sample mean; mean of x values read as |
x̄ |
Therapeutic Goods Act |
TGA |
Therapeutic Goods Administration |
TGA |
The Greek letter alpha (α) is sometimes used to indicate the significance level. |
α |