Abbreviation of Terms

The following is a list of terms used in learning activities within this website.

Term	Abbreviation
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 x-bar	x̄
Therapeutic Goods Act	TGA
Therapeutic Goods Administration	TGA
The Greek letter alpha (α) is sometimes used to indicate the significance level.	α

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