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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unblind.

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Examples

  • This painstaking work is punctuated by moments of drama as data that has been collected over months with elaborate protocols is finally "unblinded," potentially revealing a signal that would justify the announcement of a discovery.

    What Happens Peter Woit 2011

  • However, the DMC now has taken FIVE "unblinded" reviews of the cardiovascular events in addition to ALL adverse events and serious adverse events reported.

    Forbes.com: News Matthew Herper 2011

  • However, the DMC now has taken FIVE "unblinded" reviews of the cardiovascular events in addition to ALL adverse events and serious adverse events reported.

    unknown title 2011

  • Um, "unblinded", please DO begin to outline your issue with the post you quoted.

    JSOnline.com 2010

  • 'unblinded' the necessary staff to adequately follow clinical statistician with knowledge of treatment alloca - trial subjects. tion, allowing analysis of data based on the treat - Phase IV studies can also take the form of patient ment in order to assure that any adverse reactions registries to determine the effect of a new drug on can be reported to the DSMB according to treat - very rare outcomes.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows martins0105 2009

  • His views are uniquely those of the very people with whom Parker and Miller taste wine unblinded.

    Anthony Dias Blue, bloggers, and the exposure package | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • As I had been in my own kitchen, the tasters were surprised when the results were unblinded at the end of the meal and they learned that in a number of instances they had adamantly preferred Walmart produce.

    The Great Grocery Smackdown 2010

  • Any sensible person who knew the limitations of Wakefield's study would know that there was nothing to the alleged link between vaccination and autism: a single unblinded study of 12 individuals would be highly suspect even if the selection process wasn't subverted by lawyers.

    Autism / Vaccination Link Based Upon "Fixed Data" 2009

  • Ordinarily, a trial is unblinded around the half-way point for an interim analysis, which introduces error into the results and thus requires a more stringent standard of statistical proof in the final analysis to control for false positives.

    The FDA and Slower Cures 2011

  • Amid its enrollment problems, Cell Therapeutics never unblinded the trial, and thus did not introduce error, merely skipping ahead to the final analysis.

    The FDA and Slower Cures 2011

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