# OnCo record clinical-equipoise (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/clinical-equipoise/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "clinical-equipoise" ;
  schema:name "Clinical equipoise"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "equipoise"@en, "genuine uncertainty"@en, "state of uncertainty"@en, "ethically acceptable to randomise"@en, "unethical to randomise"@en, "would you randomise"@en, "therapeutic misconception"@en ;
  schema:description "Equipoise is the honest uncertainty that makes a randomised trial ethical: the medical community does not yet know which arm is better, so no patient is knowingly given the worse option."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/clinical-equipoise/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-17"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_equipoise> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_equipoise>, <https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/randomised-trial/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/informed-consent/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/ethics-review/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/placebo/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/crossover/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/data-monitoring-committee/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/single-arm/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/drug-discovery/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/protect/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/mars-2/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/navigate/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/nmtrc003/> .