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	메타분석적 4상 연구	Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
분야	역학	실험설계
계열	Process / pipeline	Hypothesis test
기원 연도	1990s–2000s (formalised as regulatory requirement context grew)	1948
창시자	Developed through the convergence of meta-analytic methods (Glass, 1976; Hedges & Olkin, 1985) and post-marketing pharmacoepidemiology frameworks	James Lind (early precursor, 1747); modern formulation: Austin Bradford Hill & Medical Research Council (1948)
유형	Evidence synthesis applied to post-marketing observational and trial data	Interventional comparative study
원전	Sutton, A. J., Abrams, K. R., Jones, D. R., Sheldon, T. A., & Song, F. (2000). Methods for Meta-Analysis in Medical Research. Wiley. ISBN: 978-0471490661	Schulz, K.F., Altman, D.G., Moher, D., for the CONSORT Group (2010). CONSORT 2010 Statement: Updated Guidelines for Reporting Parallel Group Randomised Trials. BMJ, 340, c332.
별칭	Phase IV meta-analysis, post-marketing meta-analysis, pharmacoepidemiologic meta-analysis, post-approval systematic review and meta-analysis	RCT, randomised controlled trial, clinical trial, Randomize Kontrollü Çalışma (RCT) Tasarımı
관련	3	7
요약	A meta-analytic Phase IV study pools and quantitatively synthesises data from multiple Phase IV (post-marketing) sources — including observational cohorts, registries, spontaneous adverse-event databases, and post-approval randomised trials — to produce a single, more precise estimate of a drug or device's real-world effectiveness, safety, or utilisation pattern. By applying meta-analytic weighting to heterogeneous post-marketing evidence, it bridges the gap between tightly controlled pre-approval trials and the complexity of routine clinical practice.	A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is the gold standard experimental design in clinical and health research, in which participants are randomly allocated to a treatment group or a control group so that the effect of an intervention can be measured with the highest possible degree of internal validity. The modern parallel-group RCT was formalized by Austin Bradford Hill and the Medical Research Council in their landmark streptomycin trial of 1948, and its reporting is governed today by the CONSORT 2010 guidelines (Schulz et al., 2010).