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🌍 Involving many places 📊 A multi-site study
multicenter

multicenter

1 4.8
Done at several places, often hospitals or universities, for research studies
  • adjective
  • /ˌmʌltiˈsɛntər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : multicéntrico
  • Standardization of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis diagnostic criteria has enabled large, multicenter, randomized placebo-controlled trials of proposed disease-modifying drugs.
  • multicenter study
  • multicenter trial
  • multicenter randomized

Examples

  • The present study was a multicenter pilot randomized controlled trial with a single-blind assessor.

    Academic text (2015)

  • A year later, Koltai et al. presented data from a multicenter, retrospective case series involving 1,214 children.

    Academic text (2004)

  • SAPAT was a multicenter trial in primary care centers in Sweden.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Design: A multicenter, randomized, controlled pilot trial with a single blind assessor.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The study was a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

    Academic text (1996)

  • In contrast, our multicenter study of chronically HBV-infected persons in 2009 showed a higher overall HDV seroprevalence rate of 10.7% (34/318) (7).

    Academic text (2015)

  • Offenbacher et al. conducted a multicenter randomized trial of 1,806 women randomized to receive scaling and root planing early in the second trimester or after delivery.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The CAPNETZ study is a multicenter, prospective, epidemiologic cohort study initiated by the German Competence Network for Community-Acquired Pneumonia (http://www.capnetz.de).

    Academic text (2015)

  • Enrollment of patients into a multicenter randomized blinded placebo-controlled trial of the efficacy of intravenous atrial natriuretic peptide has just been completed.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The researchers decided to conduct a large multicenter trial to gather more data on the drug's effectiveness.

Synonyms

multisite
vsmulticenter
  • Specialized
4.9

A research study that takes place in more than one place to include more people

is used more generally for work done across several institutions
multicentric
vsmulticenter
  • Specialized
7.2

Happening in several different places

is focused on activities conducted across institutions rather than origin

How Many Centers

multicenter
  • Specialized
1 4.8
centerless
  • US
7.2

Surface Forms

multicenter positive

Morphology

multicenter = center (transparent) = multi + center

The meaning is a straightforward combination of 'multi-' and 'center', referring to multiple centers or locations.

Etymology

Multicenter joins multi- ('many'), the same start as multiple, with center ('middle' or main place). So a multicenter study or project takes place at several different locations or institutions at once.