Abbreviation of terms

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

Therapeutic Goods Act

TGA

Therapeutic Goods Administration

TGA

The Greek letter alpha (α) is sometimes used to indicate the significance level.

α