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	کارآزمایی بالینی فاز III گذشته‌نگر	کارآزمایی بالینی فاز III
حوزه	اپیدمیولوژی	اپیدمیولوژی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	Late 20th century (ICH E8 1997; widespread retrospective Phase III use from 1990s onward)	1962 (Kefauver-Harris Amendment formalised phased drug development)
پدیدآور	Regulatory framework codified by ICH E8/E9 (1997–1998); retrospective application developed through post-marketing and registry practice	FDA regulatory framework / ICH guidelines
نوع	Retrospective comparative clinical study	Confirmatory randomised controlled trial
منبع بنیادین	Friedman, L. M., Furberg, C. D., & DeMets, D. L. (2010). Fundamentals of Clinical Trials (4th ed.). Springer. ISBN: 978-1441915856	Friedman, L. M., Furberg, C. D., DeMets, D. L., Reboussin, D. M., & Granger, C. B. (2015). Fundamentals of Clinical Trials (5th ed.). Springer. ISBN: 978-3319185385
نام‌های دیگر	retrospective Phase III study, historical Phase III trial, Phase III retrospective analysis, retrospective comparative efficacy trial	Phase 3 trial, confirmatory trial, pivotal trial, Phase III RCT
مرتبط	5	6
خلاصه	A retrospective Phase III clinical trial evaluates the comparative efficacy and safety of an intervention against a control using data that were collected before the study was designed. Rather than enrolling new patients prospectively, researchers analyze existing records — from registries, hospital databases, or historical trial archives — to address a Phase III-level question: does Treatment A outperform the current standard of care in a large, representative patient population? This design is used when prospective enrollment is infeasible, unethical, or when historical data are sufficiently complete to support a rigorous comparison.	A Phase III clinical trial is a large-scale, confirmatory randomised controlled trial designed to establish the efficacy and safety of an intervention in the target patient population before regulatory submission. It builds on the signal identified in Phase II, tests the intervention at its proposed dose under controlled conditions, and provides the primary evidence base for marketing authorisation or guideline adoption.