Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
interventional procedure
Definitions related to interventional procedure:
  • (intervention) In medicine, a treatment or action taken to prevent or treat disease, or improve health in other ways.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (intervention) The drug, device, therapy, or process under investigation in a clinical study that is believed to have an effect on outcomes of interest in a study (e.g., health-related quality of life, efficacy, safety, pharmacoeconomics).
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • (intervention or procedure) An activity that produces an effect, or that is intended to alter the course of a disease in a patient or population. This is a general term that encompasses the medical, social, behavioral, and environmental acts that can have preventive, therapeutic, or palliative effects.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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