Other terms
- Office for Human Research Protection (OHRP)
- Omics
- Open-Label Trial
- Ophthalmology
- Optic Nerve
- Osteoarthritis
- Over-the-Counter (OTC) Applications
- Parkinson’s Disease
- PASI Score
- Pediatric Neurology
- Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
- Pharmacokinetics
Objective Endpoints
What are objective endpoints? Objective endpoints are measurable outcomes of a clinical trial and do not consider the subject’s feelings. Objective endpoints can be clinical endpoints, such as survival and risk, or non-clinical endpoints, such as blood tests. Objective endpoints are less vulnerable to bias.
What are the disadvantages of objective endpoints?
Objective endpoints, especially non-clinical endpoints, require testing, which may be time- sensitive, expensive, and have the risk of laboratory errors.
Source: Evans S. R. (2010). Fundamentals of clinical trial design. Journal of experimental stroke & translational medicine, 3(1), 19–27. https://doi.org/10.6030/1939-067x-3.1.19
