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ELIGIBILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality or state of being eligible
Example:
eligibility for a loan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("eligibility" is a kind of...):
making; qualification (an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eligibility"):
insurability (the quality of being insurable; the conditions under which an insurance company will issue insurance to an applicant (based on standards set by the insurance company))
marriageability (eligibility for marriage)
Antonym:
ineligibility (the quality or state of being ineligible)
Derivation:
eligible (qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen)
Context examples:
EXAMPLE(S): The description for Screening Epoch could be "A 2-week period during which eligibility is determined and baseline measurements are taken".
(Epoch Description, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
The code and text of an individual question on the eligibility checklist of a protocol.
(Defined Activity Name Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
A Screening Epoch in which subjects' eligibility is determined and baseline measurements are made.
(Clinical Trial Epoch, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
This was his plan of amends—of atonement—for inheriting their father's estate; and he thought it an excellent one, full of eligibility and suitableness, and excessively generous and disinterested on his own part.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
An action plan of a pre-clinical or clinical study describing the procedure for obtaining an experimental drug or device for patients who are not adequately treated by existing therapy, who do not meet eligibility criteria for enrollment, or who are otherwise unable to participate in a controlled clinical study.
(Expanded Access Study Protocol Version, NCI Thesaurus)
Parallel track means there is separate group of subjects that go through the same protocol activities but that didn't get on the main trial due to different reasons such as eligibility criteria, location, etc. and their outcome data is collected and analyzed, just not analyzed with the other data, rather in parallel.
(Expanded Access Study Protocol Version, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
EXAMPLE(S): obtain informed consent, verify eligibility criteria, enroll, registration to a study, randomize, assignment to a treatment arm, start of on-study period, complete study visits, end of on-study period, exit trial, break treatment blind, protocol violation, premature withdrawal.
(Performed Study Subject Milestone, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
EXAMPLE(S): assignment to a treatment arm, registration to a study, start of on-study period, end of on-study period, obtain informed consent, verify eligibility criteria, enroll, randomize, complete study visits, exit trial, break treatment blind, protocol violation, premature withdrawal, etc.
(Performed Administrative Activity, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
EXAMPLE(S): obtain informed consent, verify eligibility criteria, enroll, registration to a study, randomize, assignment to a treatment arm, start of on-study period, complete study visits, end of on-study period, exit trial, break treatment blind, protocol violation, premature withdrawal
(Defined Study Subject Milestone, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
To see you, cried he, in the midst of those who could not be my well-wishers; to see your cousin close by you, conversing and smiling, and feel all the horrible eligibilities and proprieties of the match!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
