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The central concept of a clinical trial is that it is a design that allows comparison of treatment outcomes among two or more groups evaluated simultaneously and according to an established protocol. The comparison may be of two therapies (e.g., therapy A vs. therapy B), of a new treatment versus no treatment, or among more than two treatments (e.g., varying doses of a new therapeutic agent).