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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of accumulating
Synonyms:
accrual; accruement; accumulation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("accrual" is a kind of...):
increase; step-up (the act of increasing something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accrual"):
buildup (the act of building up an accumulation)
Derivation:
accrue (grow by addition)
accrue (come into the possession of)
Context examples:
The Clinical Protocol Date Opened, Standard Cancer Center Information Summary for Cancer Center Support Grant Application, is the date when the clinical study was opened to accrual at the reporting Cancer Center.
(Clinical Protocol Date Opened Standard Cancer Center Information Summary, NCI Thesaurus)
The date on which a trial was opened to accrual.
(Clinical Study Activation Date, NCI Thesaurus)
A clinical study status designating the study open to accrual.
(Active Study, NCI Thesaurus)
The Clinical Protocol Date Closed, Standard Cancer Center Information Summary for Cancer Center Support Grant Application, is the date when the clinical study was closed to accrual at the reporting Cancer Center during the 12-month reporting period.
(Clinical Protocol Date Closed Standard Cancer Center Information Summary, NCI Thesaurus)
A study plan on which the clinical trial is based focuses on several priority parameters that include but are not limited to the types of subjects eligible to participate in the study, targeted accrual numbers, schedules and durations of interventions, the length of the study, and the planned duration of a subject participation.
(Planned Clinical Study, NCI Thesaurus)
The Biostatistics Shared Resource works with Cancer Center investigators to define study/protocol objectives and endpoints, analyze pilot data, select an appropriate study design, blinding methods and randomization scheme, plan interim analyses, define an adequate sample size and accrual rate, develop and evaluate the statistical methods and analyse data, prepare statistical sections of the grant and protocol applications, analyze and design relational databases, forms and reports.
(Biostatistics Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
NOTE(S): Derived from the summary of all arm accruals in that Epoch.
(Epoch Target Accrual Number Range, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
