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If you are registering an interventional trial, you'll need to select the Primary Purpose for that trial from a pre-defined list within the Study Design module.

Refer to the definitions below when selecting the Primary Purpose for your interventional study:

• Treatment: One or more interventions are being evaluated for treating a disease, syndrome, or condition.
• Prevention: One or more interventions are being assessed for preventing the development of a specific disease or health condition.
• Diagnostic: One or more interventions are being evaluated for identifying a disease or health condition.
• Supportive Care: One or more interventions are evaluated for maximizing comfort, minimizing side effects, or mitigating against a decline in the participant's health or function.
• Screening: One or more interventions are assessed or examined for identifying a condition, or risk factors for a condition, in people who are not yet known to have the condition or risk factor.
• Health Services Research: One or more interventions for evaluating the delivery, processes, management, organization, or financing of healthcare.
• Basic Science: One or more interventions for examining the basic mechanism of action (for example, physiology or biomechanics of an intervention).
• Device Feasibility: An intervention of a device product is being evaluated in a small clinical trial (generally fewer than 10 participants) to determine the feasibility of the product; or a clinical trial to test a prototype device for feasibility and not health outcomes. Such studies are conducted to confirm the design and operating specifications of a device before beginning a full clinical trial.
• Other: None of the other options applies.

For help with your records, please clinicalresearchsupportcenter@ucdenver.edu.