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baseline characteristics

— Descriptive information about the participants in a study collected at the beginning of the study.


Synonyms:

baseline data

Full explanation:

Baseline characteristics or data are demographic, medical and other information, particularly prognostic variables.

Researchers collect this information about each participant at the beginning of a study, before they have received the treatments that are going to be compared in a treatment comparison.

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